History A-Level
trade societies
What trade societies means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of trade societies
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Bodies of skilled workers that provided mutual aid and bargaining to protect wages, conditions and customary rights.
Topics that use trade societies
- Paper 1, Option 1D: Britain, c1785–c1870: democracy, protest and reform - 3 Unionism and cooperation, c1785–c1870 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Cooperation and self-help
- Economic organisation of the working class
- Friendly societies
- National organisation and coordination
- Paternalism versus mutualism
- Respectability and moderation
- collective action
- Combination Acts
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