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RSA/PR/GE/121/10/34
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Conference on strikes and lockouts
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- 1854 (Creation)
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Correspondence to the Society on the organisation of the conference and opinions on the subject including industrial relations generally. Includes some printed tracts about anti-truck laws
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H I Dutton and J E King, 'The Society of Arts and the Preston Strike, 1853-4', Jnl. RSA 127 (1979), p.506 Box 3
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This was a controversial conference of 1853-54, prompted by the Preston Strike, and the resolute rebuttal by William Bridge Adams of the proposition that 'degrading human labour is essential to national prosperity'. A full report of the Conference proceedings appears in the Journal: Vol 2, pp189-210
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Creator DenvirC 31/01/2002