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The Temper of British Labor

Olds, Leland | April 19, 1919 issue

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This article considers the labor movement in Great Britain with reference to its effect upon modern machine production. Organized before the automatic machine began, the reduction of all factory labor to a single semi-skilled level, the craft unions had for years been enforcing certain rules which held up the normal advance of modern machine production. The First World War, with its tremendous appetite for the products of a great munitions plants, offered the employing class a plausible excuse for bringing English industry to date. The new industrial unity is opposed by the trade-union executives but is still able to call large strikes.

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LABOR movement -- Great Britain; AUTOMATION; LABOR unions; WORLD War, 1914-1918; STRIKES & lockouts; GREAT Britain

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