Select Documents Illustrating the History of Trade Unionism: I. The Tailoring Trade (Classic Reprint)

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Metropolis, now Westminster against the City. We are able to trace his gradual increase of wages and diminution of hours, a progress constantly interrupted by the pressure of the unemployed, and by the enormous ?uctuations in the trade caused by the periods of Court mourning. We watch the working of the curious system of the House of Call, and we see the coming in of piecework, now universal in the trade. We may even, towards the close of the history, trace the beginnings of the pernicious system of giving out work to be done in the men's own homes, which has been, for the last fifty years, the special bane of the industry. We have, in fact, in this unique series of contemporary pictures of the tailoring trade, extend ing over a century and a quarter, most interesting materials, both for the story of the industry itself, and for that economic history of the eighteenth century of which we are all so much in need.

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