Working Rights History
Below are our 9 articles in the 'working rights history' category:
Alongside the Industrial Revolution the concept of socialism was developing to hold all the ideas that were emerging about the rights of workers and feed into the development of the trade unions that ...
The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain changed the lives of ordinary people for ever, laid the grounding for the British Empire to come but also experienced the first unions and other populist ...
The history of workers' attempts to establish their rights in the United Kingdom goes back to the Middle Ages as far as we can tell. There were almost certainly earlier attempts to escape the ...
Throughout the 60s and 70s power in the United Kingdom flip-flopped between Labour and the Conservatives and throughout the process the unions got stronger and stronger. Successive governments ...
Teleworking allows people to work from home or another location and really works well for some people, but you need to make sure that an employer doesn't use it as an excuse to change other working ...
When the European Economic Community began in 1957 the aim was to create a single market and guarantee four freedoms: the free movement of capital goods, services and people between the member ...
The Nineteenth Century saw the Trade Unions rise to power, gaining many concessions for the workers and improving their lot immeasurably, but ultimately the general consensus of opinion was that they ...
Should anyone in the UK be concerned about the rights of workers abroad? Many people consider that it's the exploitation of workers in other countries that's largely responsible for the abundance of ...
There are a great deal of rights, rules and regulations surrounding maternity leave to ensure that pregnant women are treated fairly. Employers are usually fully aware of the employment law ...
