Workers united The truth about trade union participation

摘要

When the Combination Laws were passed in the UK at the end of the eighteenth century, it was a reaction to both the reliance new industrialists had on their massed ranks of workers and representative of the fear the nouveau riche had that those people might rise up against their peers and overthrow their new empires. Parallels were evident in the problems the British Empire had in establishing its rule of law in some of its territories. And whether the fear was real or imagined, it made sense for the C-suites of the day to keep the great unwashed in check to protect their bottom lines.