British Trade Unionism and Cooperation 1780-1870

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Year of Robert Owen's purchase of New Lanark	1799
Value of Cooperative property by the mid 70s	£300,000
Number of children in Robert Owen's New Lanark school	100
Number of Cooperative stores by 1832	500
Percentage of NMU funds invested back for workers	99
Number of GNCTU members	1,000,000
Number of people convicted under the 1799 and 1800 combination acts	10-15
Name of the Government office friendly societies had to register with by 1846	The Registrar of Friendly Societies
Number of people who paid membership to GNCTU	16,000
Person who felt that the ASE was an ‘Aristocracy of Labour’ which ignored the working classes	Lenin
Ratio of Friendly societies : Trade Unions by 1870	4:1
Concept involving the profits from cooperative shops being reinvested into the local community thus benefiting the community	Virtuous Cycle
Number of Cooperative stores by mid 1850s	1,000
Year of the Russian Tsar's visit to New Lanark	1810
What did the NMU for Builders go on strike for in 1859-60?	Piecework
Proportion of population insured by Friendly societies by 1815	1/3
Profit made over 29 years by New Lanark	£300,000
Number of trade union members by 1874	1,000,000
Name of the cooperative newspaper published from 1827-29	The Cooperator
Minimum age of New Lanark workers	10
Nationality of workers who made striking union workers replaceable	Irish
Number of trade union members by 1850	100,000
Did the Rochdale Society supply credit to their customers?	No
By 1868, the Cooperative Wholesale Society was trading with Australia and which other continent?	South America
The percentage of England’s population that was in Friendly Societies by 1803	8
Maximum working day at New Lanark (hours)	12
Could Women vote in the Rochdale Society	Yes
Members of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) in 1861	33,000
Year of the Friendly Societies Act that meant Friendly Societies had to register with local Justices of the Peace	1793
Name of the TUC newspaper	The Beehive
Number of people prosecuted per year under the Master and Servant Act, 1858-75	10,000
Year in which the Corn Laws were introduced	1815
Name of the disastrous strike in 1834, which resulted in the firing of all those who striked	Derby Lockout

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