Trade Unionism in the Late Eighties

The t c o is the first time that a big swathe of trade unions come together to create a new central body. It's, in some ways, it's a sort of culmination of what happens when you start professionalizing and centralizing individual unions. They then come together on a central basis and start talking to each other and organizing - both industrially and politically. And as we move into the late nineteenth century, this is a time when we start to see some large scale disputes,. such as the brian and may match sgale strike in 18 88.