Edexcel History 2. Industrialisation, Protest, and Unionism

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A large national friendly society

A 1797 naval mutiny on the Thames desiring better pay, conditions, and peace with France, ultimately defeated

Three acts, from 1852, 1854, and 1857 that set up a system of public cemeteries

A belief by people like Robert Owen that ideal societies of cooperation could be established among like-minded people within the existing society

A shop in which people collectively purchased goods wholesale which they sold at market prices with the profits divided amongst members proportionally to how much they had spent in the shop

The decade in which most historians place the beginning of improvement in living standards

A paternalistic Tory MP who opposed parliamentary reform but led the call within Parliament for factory reform - a position taken up by John Fielden after he left the Commons - chairing the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of the Condition of the Labouring Classes

The period from the late 18th century to the early-to-mid 19th century in Great Britain characterised by the transformation of the country to an industrial nation

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

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The way in which artisans restricted entry to their craft in an effort to protect their prosperity in the face of suppression of combinations

The percentage of the population in towns and cities with over 20,000 people who were born elsewhere by 1851

A painted block hung above ever work station in New Lanark, coloured depending on independent effort as a replacement for punishment, encouraging better performance without causing a master/worker divide

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

The belief that people should rely on themselves not on the state, as supported by the cooperative movement

An 1823 act that made breach of contract by workers against employers a criminal offence punishable by prison, but by employers against workers a civil offence

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

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 1793 act requiring codification of friendly society charters and regulation of them in the hope of suppressing them but - but giving them de facto legal recognition - increased their popularity

The percentage of workers under the age of 19 in 1842