 | 1894 - 508 sivua
...their tone. "A Trade Union, as we understand the term," the authors say in their first sentence, "is a continuous association of wageearners for the purpose...or improving the conditions of their employment." They make too much, it seems to us, of the mistake they attribute to Dr. Brentano and Mr. G. Howell,... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1895 - 480 sivua
...Place and his share in securing the repeal of the combination laws. As a trade union is defined to be "a continuous association of wage-earners for the...maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment" (p. i), the I authors begin their story with the first part of the last century. The name itself, however,... | |
 | Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb - 1896 - 582 sivua
...UNIONISM. CHAPTER I. THE ORIGINS OF TRADE UNIONISM. . A TRADE UNION, as we understand the term, is a continuous association of wage-earners for the purpose...maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment. This form of association has, as we shall see, existed in England for nearly two centuries, and cannot... | |
 | 1897 - 610 sivua
...industrial history and one worthy of minute and detailed examination. A trade union has been well defined as a " continuous association of wage-earners for...of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment."3 This definition, while it does not deny their influence on the general trade-union develop1... | |
 | Henry Winfred Thurston - 1899 - 308 sivua
...trade union, which Mr. Sidney Webb defines as follows: "A trade union, as we understand the term, is a continuous association of wage-earners for the purpose...or improving the conditions of their employment." There are many points of dissimilarity between a trade union and a medieval craft gild, of which the... | |
 | Henry Winfred Thurston - 1899 - 308 sivua
...trade union, which Mr. Sidney Webb defines as follows: "A trade union, as we understand the term, is a continuous association of wage-earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of then- employment." There are many points of dissimilarity between a trade union and a medieval craft... | |
 | 1901 - 906 sivua
...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 is to appreciate... | |
 | Maine. Bureau of Industrial and Labor Statistics - 1903 - 232 sivua
...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, workmen and... | |
 | Nicholas Paine Gilman - 1904 - 464 sivua
...in the text. 2 Mr. and Mrs. Webb, in their standard History of Trade- Unionism, define a trade-union as " a continuous association of wage-earners for...or improving the conditions of their employment." This definition seems rather too vague for our particular purpose, and in fact Mr. and Mrs. Webb forsake... | |
 | 1906 - 1302 sivua
...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 tusschen... | |
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The classic definition of a trade union is that of Sidney and Beatrice Webb in 1894. They defined a trade union as "a continuous association of wageearners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment". 
