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Trade Boards Act 1909
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Winston Churchill, MP, put the argument for the legislation as follows:WEB,weblinkweblink dead, 1 June 2019, Hansard Series 5, Vol 4, col 388, 28 April 1909, {{Cquote|It is a serious national evil that any class of His Majesty's subjects should receive less than a living wage in return for their utmost exertions. It was formerly supposed that the working of the laws of supply and demand would naturally regulate or eliminate that evil. The first clear division which we make on the question to-day is between healthy and unhealthy conditions of bargaining. That is the first broad division which we make in the general statement that the laws of supply and demand will ultimately produce a fair price. Where in the great staple trades in the country you have a powerful organisation on both sides, where you have responsible leaders able to bind their constituents to their decision, where that organisation is conjoint with an automatic scale of wages or arrangements for avoiding a deadlock by means of arbitration, there you have a healthy bargaining which increases the competitive power of the industry, enforces a progressive standard of life and the productive scale, and continually weaves capital and labour more closely together. But where you have what we call sweated trades, you have no organisation, no parity of bargaining, the good employer is undercut by the bad, and the bad employer is undercut by the worst; the worker, whose whole livelihood depends upon the industry, is undersold by the worker who only takes the trade up as a second string, his feebleness and ignorance generally renders the worker an easy prey to the tyranny; of the masters and middle-men, only a step higher up the ladder than the worker, and held in the same relentless grip of forcesâwhere those conditions prevail you have not a condition of progress, but a condition of progressive degeneration.}}See also
- UK labour law
- Trade Boards Act 1918
- Wages Councils Act 1945
- National Minimum Wage Act 1998
- S Webb and B Webb, Industrial Democracy (1898)
- Liberal reforms
Notes
{{reflist|2}}Further reading
- Blackburn, Sheila. "Ideology and social policy: the origins of the Trade Boards Act." The Historical Journal 341 (1991): 43-64.
- S Webb and B Webb, Industrial Democracy (Longmans 1902)
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