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A Fair Day's Wage for a Fair Day's Work? - Sweated Labour and the Origins of Minimum Wage Legislation in Britain (Paperback)
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A Fair Day's Wage for a Fair Day's Work? - Sweated Labour and the Origins of Minimum Wage Legislation in Britain (Paperback)
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The nature of sweating and the origins of low pay legislation are
of fundamental social, economic and moral importance. Although
difficult to define, sweating, according to a select committee
established to investigate the issue, was characterised by long
hours, poor working conditions and above all by low pay. By the
beginning of the twentieth century the government estimated that up
to a third of the British workforce could be classed as sweated
labour, and for the first time in a century began to think about
introducing legislation to address the problem. Whilst historians
have written much on unemployment, poverty relief and other such
related social and industrial issues, relatively little work has
been done on the causes, extent and character of sweated labour.
That work which has been done has tended to focus on the tailoring
trades in London and Leeds, and fails to give a broad overview of
the phenomenon and how it developed and changed over time. In
contrast, this volume adopts a broad national and long-run
approach, providing a more holistic understanding of the subject.
Rejecting the argument that sweating was merely a London or gender
related problem, it paints a picture of a widespread and constantly
shifting pattern of sweated labour across the country, that was to
eventually persuade the government to introduce legislation in the
form of the 1909 Trades Board Act. It was this act, intended to
combat sweated labour, which was to form the cornerstone of low pay
legislation, and the barrier to the introduction of a minimum wage,
for the next 90 years.
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