Deutsche Geschichte: Neueste Zeit

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Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Deutsche Geschichte

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Gaertner

Year of publication:: 1891-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1892071819

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236181

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Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Neueste Zeit

Volume count:: Abt. 3

Place of publication:: Freiburg im Breisgau

Publisher:: Heyfelder

Year of publication:: 1906

Scope:: IX S., S. [303] - 729

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Title:: V. Bildende Kunst und Musik

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A.D. 1776 —1850. Friendly Societies continued to exist. 7134 LAISSEZ FAIRE probably be mischievous to trade. They might readily believe that if a fixed minimum of wages, even when it emanated from public authority, was an evil and tended to aggravate distress, the attempts of private individuals to take the matter into their own hands, and enforce such regulations by the strength of a combination, were still more to be deprecated; this seemed to be doing a bad thing in the worst possible way. There wasa diametric opposition between the operatives, whose chief aim was to uphold the Elizabethan policy, and the legislature, which regarded the old system as mischievous, and felt justified in treating all efforts to restore it indirectly as criminal. The Act did not affect associations which existed for approved objects, but merely the employment of the powerful weapon of combination for purposes which the legislature regarded as mischievous’. There was at this time a very general interest in Friendly Societies, and a desire on the part of the Government to give them a better status. The Act, which Mr Rose had carried through in 17932 had en- couraged these societies to bring their constitutions and rules before the justices for approval ; and conferred on them a definite legal status if they did so; as these bodies were able to use their funds to assist their members when out of work or when travelling in search of it?, a considerable field of activity in connection with trade affairs was open to them. There appear to have been many such societies in all parts of 1 «All contracts...made...between any journeymen manufacturers or other workmen...for obtaining an advance of wages,...lessening or altering their or any of their usual hours or time of working...or for preventing or hindering any person or persons from employing whomsoever he, she or they shall think proper to employ in his her or their business, or for controlling...any person or persons carrying on any manufacture, trade, or business, in the conduct or management thereof, shall be...illegal.” 89 Geo. III. ¢. 81. 233 Geo. IIL. ec. 54. An dct for the Encouragement of Friendly Societies. 3 A clear account of the objects of one of these societies will be found in the evidence given before a Committee of the House of Commons in 1794. It is clear that an out-of work benefit was allowed and it was also stated that there was not one out of a hundred of the Woolcombers that did not belong to some society. William Eales’ evidence, C. J. xL1x. p. 323. The practice of associating for trade objects and other benefits had existed among the woolcombers for many years. See above, pp. 508 and 652 n. 8.

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