1 feb 1834 año - Grand National Consolidated Trade Union began
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Originated among the trades of London and was mainly an association of tailors, silk weavers and shoe makers. Was supported by a successful cotton manufacturer, Robert Owen, who had a strong belief in socialist ideas and in organising workers for reform. It had some innovative features:
- mutual support during strikes as workers from different trades and industry supported each other
- a fund to provide sickness benefits
- some inclusion of women workers
- inclusion of some agricultural workers
Only had 16,000 members and quickly collapsed.
Unions as a whole continued to suffer from economic change.
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