Links and comments for university students of English, and of British Studies and British history. Study links connected with my classes, and general links on current affairs etc. There are sometimes indications as to what group might be particularly interested (L2 for Licence 2nd year, for example)
This site shows you a lot of documents connected with the General Strike of 1926. It is on the Trades Union Congress site, and so can be expected to be sympathetic to the strikers.
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hello Mr Mullen I would like to know if you will add any ectracts from the class on TUC history. I'm in regimme derogatoire and I must admit that exctarcts fromc class are very helpful. thank you and have a nice holliday.
sorry to bother you but I can't understand why in one of your course you said that after 1834 there is a parallel development between trade unionism and parliamentary reforms. Isn't the Reform act of 1832 the result of trade union struggle?
Thanks for the question. Fundamentally, no, the Reform Act of 1832 is not a result of trade union struggle. Remember this Act gave the vote to a small elite, even if wider than before. The Bill was rejected by the House of Lords, and the result was a mass protest movement - riots etc, but this was absolutely not organised by the trade unions in any way.
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hello Mr Mullen I would like to know if you will add any ectracts from the class on TUC history. I'm in regimme derogatoire and I must admit that exctarcts fromc class are very helpful.
thank you and have a nice holliday.
Yes indeed, I added (yesterday) some extracts from two of the classes on trade union history (880 on, and 1919-1926).
All the extracts are here
http://www.jcmullen.fr/revisioncontestation.html
Good luck with all that.
JM
sorry to bother you but I can't understand why in one of your course you said that after 1834 there is a parallel development between trade unionism and parliamentary reforms.
Isn't the Reform act of 1832 the result of trade union struggle?
Thanks for the question. Fundamentally, no, the Reform Act of 1832 is not a result of trade union struggle. Remember this Act gave the vote to a small elite, even if wider than before. The Bill was rejected by the House of Lords, and the result was a mass protest movement - riots etc, but this was absolutely not organised by the trade unions in any way.
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