Edexcel History 2. Industrialisation, Protest, and Unionism

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The percentage of Lancashire cotton firms that employed over 1,000 workers in 1841

A company established in 1845 by Fergus O'Connor to help working class people set up communities like Connorville and Charterville allowing them to qualify to vote, wound up by Parliament in 1851

A spinning frame invented in 1768 by Richard Arkwright allowing for the spinning of 128 threads at a time and the founding of the factory system in textiles

Larger, moderate, anti-Owenite, anti-Chartist unions of skilled workers formed in the mid 19th century committed to negotiation rather than militancy

The length of the normal working day in a mill or factory

A series of letters by Richard Oastler to the Leeds Mercury in 1830 which was unabashedly critical of the working conditions for children in Worsted Mills in Bradford

The new model union leaders who acted as a sort of cabinet for the trade union movement in the 1860's

A banking crisis and economic downturn caused by the bursting of the 'railway mania' bubble resulting in the collapse of many local unions

The years in which Luddism was active

An 1871 act under Gladstone and liberal Sir William Erle that legalised trade unions along the line of the minority report

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The job of children, employed to wind together broken cotton threads on moving machinery

The percentage of workers under the age of 20 in 1821

The increase in the number of spinning factories from 1770 to 1790

The job of women and children in mines involving being chained to, and hauling carts of coal along shafts

A large national friendly society

Banks owned between shareholders thus allowing for large funds to be generated thereby enabling the development of industrial enterprises

The process of enclosing land under the open-field-system into private enclosures, increasing efficiency and thus landowner's profits

An act that limited working hours for women and those aged 13 to 18 to 10 ten and a half hours a day

An organisation representative of trade unions nationally, founded in 1868 with the convening of a general trades congress of 24 delegates representing 118,000 union members by Samuel Nicholson, president of the Manchester and Salford Traders Council, largely shunned by the London Traders Council

The increase in the membership of friendly societies from 1801 to 1850?