History A-Level
Trade union decline and legal restrictions
What Trade union decline and legal restrictions means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The Trades Disputes Act 1927 banned sympathetic strikes and mass picketing, and forced union members to contract in to political levies.
Topics that use Trade union decline and legal restrictions
- Paper 3, Option 36.1: Protest, agitation and parliamentary reform in Britain, c1780–1928 - 5 Trades union militancy, 1915–27 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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