Statistics for British Trade Unionism and Cooperation 1780-1870

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Year of Robert Owen's purchase of New Lanark	1799	100%
Nationality of workers who made striking union workers replaceable	Irish	100%
Minimum age of New Lanark workers	10	75%
Number of children in Robert Owen's New Lanark school	100	75%
Number of people prosecuted per year under the Master and Servant Act, 1858-75	10,000	75%
Number of trade union members by 1874	1,000,000	75%
Number of GNCTU members	1,000,000	75%
Maximum working day at New Lanark (hours)	12	75%
Number of people who paid membership to GNCTU	16,000	75%
Year in which the Corn Laws were introduced	1815	75%
Profit made over 29 years by New Lanark	£300,000	75%
The percentage of England’s population that was in Friendly Societies by 1803	8	75%
Percentage of NMU funds invested back for workers	99	75%
Name of the disastrous strike in 1834, which resulted in the firing of all those who striked	Derby Lockout	75%
Name of the TUC newspaper	The Beehive	75%
Name of the cooperative newspaper published from 1827-29	The Cooperator	75%
Number of Cooperative stores by mid 1850s	1,000	50%
Number of trade union members by 1850	100,000	50%
Number of people convicted under the 1799 and 1800 combination acts	10-15	50%
Proportion of population insured by Friendly societies by 1815	1/3	50%
Year of the Russian Tsar's visit to New Lanark	1810	50%
Value of Cooperative property by the mid 70s	£300,000	50%
Members of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) in 1861	33,000	50%
Ratio of Friendly societies : Trade Unions by 1870	4:1	50%
Number of Cooperative stores by 1832	500	50%
Person who felt that the ASE was an ‘Aristocracy of Labour’ which ignored the working classes	Lenin	50%
Name of the Government office friendly societies had to register with by 1846	The Registrar of Friendly Societies	50%
Concept involving the profits from cooperative shops being reinvested into the local community thus benefiting the community	Virtuous Cycle	50%
Could Women vote in the Rochdale Society	Yes	50%
Year of the Friendly Societies Act that meant Friendly Societies had to register with local Justices of the Peace	1793	25%
Did the Rochdale Society supply credit to their customers?	No	25%
What did the NMU for Builders go on strike for in 1859-60?	Piecework	25%
By 1868, the Cooperative Wholesale Society was trading with Australia and which other continent?	South America	25%