...historian of the trade union movement in Great Britain, has defined a trade union to be "a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment." The necessity for an accurate definition, such as is here given, is imperative if one...

...and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc." "A trade union is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment." "Trade unions are combinations for regulating the relations between workmen and masters,...

...improvement of factory and mining conditions. Trade unions in the sense of "continuous associations of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment''1 existed in England since the beginning of the eighteenth century, 'This definition, as...

...uitoefening van het vak. SIDNEY WEBB zegt dan ook: „Trade Union as weunderstand the term is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment." De arbeidsvoorwaarden in de nijverheid worden, zooals ik zeide, vastgesteld bij overeenkomst...

...the underlying principle of labor organization is recognized. A trade union is understood to be an association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment, and it is this form and for this purpose that the union has existed in England for at least...

...the underlying principle of labor organization is recognized. A trade union is understood to be an association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment, and it is this form and for this purpose that the union has existed in England for at least...

...connection has yet been traced — we maysay that Trade Unionism, in the sense of durable combinations of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of GREAT BRITAIN — TRADE UNIONISM their employment, have existed continuously from the end of the I7th...

...correct. Organized labor also has a contribution to make. Trade union is defined as a " continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment." 1 Trade unions undertake a propaganda for improving conditions through a labor press and...

...membership. Here, then, was the beginning of the modern trade union, denned by Webb to be " a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment." These early beginnings were not extensive, yet the growth of the new form of combination...

...measuring the increase in the strength of trade unionism. If a trade union be defined as " a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment," 2 the best index of the growth of trade unionism would be the ratio of trade unionists...