Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CHAPTER I European trade policy, 1815–1914
- CHAPTER II Commercial policy between the wars
- CHAPTER III International financial policy and the gold standard, 1870–1914
- CHAPTER IV The gold standard and national financial policies, 1919–39
- CHAPTER V Taxation and public finance: Britain, France, and Germany
- CHAPTER VI State policy towards labour and labour organizations, 1830–1939: Anglo-American union movements
- CHAPTER VII Labour and the state on the continent, 1800–1939
- CHAPTER VIII British public policy, 1776–1939
- CHAPTER IX American economic policy, 1865–1939
- CHAPTER X Economic and social policy in France
- CHAPTER XI German economic and social policy, 1815–1939
- CHAPTER XII Economic policy and economic development in Austria–Hungary, 1867–1913
- CHAPTER XIII East-central and south-east Europe, 1919–39
- CHAPTER XIV Economic and social policy in the USSR, 1917–41
- CHAPTER XV Economic and social policy in Sweden, 1850–1939
- CHAPTER XVI Aspects of economic and social policy in Japan, 1868–1945
- Bibliographies
- References
CHAPTER VI - State policy towards labour and labour organizations, 1830–1939: Anglo-American union movements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CHAPTER I European trade policy, 1815–1914
- CHAPTER II Commercial policy between the wars
- CHAPTER III International financial policy and the gold standard, 1870–1914
- CHAPTER IV The gold standard and national financial policies, 1919–39
- CHAPTER V Taxation and public finance: Britain, France, and Germany
- CHAPTER VI State policy towards labour and labour organizations, 1830–1939: Anglo-American union movements
- CHAPTER VII Labour and the state on the continent, 1800–1939
- CHAPTER VIII British public policy, 1776–1939
- CHAPTER IX American economic policy, 1865–1939
- CHAPTER X Economic and social policy in France
- CHAPTER XI German economic and social policy, 1815–1939
- CHAPTER XII Economic policy and economic development in Austria–Hungary, 1867–1913
- CHAPTER XIII East-central and south-east Europe, 1919–39
- CHAPTER XIV Economic and social policy in the USSR, 1917–41
- CHAPTER XV Economic and social policy in Sweden, 1850–1939
- CHAPTER XVI Aspects of economic and social policy in Japan, 1868–1945
- Bibliographies
- References
Summary
Introduction
When considering the industrial revolution in Europe and the labour movements to which it gave rise, it is customary to think in Anglo-European, or more precisely Anglo-French terms. Britain was master of the first industrial revolution based on coal and cotton, so tradition has it, while French thinkers such as Proudhon, Saint-Simon, and Louis Blanc provided the intellectual analysis upon which the first rational critiques of the new industrialism were built. Yet an equally suggestive – if less orthodox – way of approaching the history of the labour movement, at least in the English-speaking world, can be obtained through an Anglo-American rather than through an Anglo-European form of analysis. This is partly for reasons to do with similarities in language, customs, and law. Anglo-American traditions with regard to the legality of strikes, picketing, and other trade-union practices, which differed markedly between Great Britain and the French Napoleonic Code on which most continental labour law was based, were similar on both sides of the Atlantic.
This approach is also plausible because, although quite different in other regions, the process of American industrialization as it occurred between 1815 and 1840 in New England, in the Ohio valley and to some extent in the mid-Atlantic states, was quite similar to that which had taken place in Lancashire, in Yorkshire and the English Midlands not many years before. As a result, it has been argued by one scholar that the growth and character of the American labour movement can best be seen as developing along similar lines to those adopted in Great Britain, save that major advances in the American movement followed along approximately one generation behind the British.
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