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Trade unions: everything you wanted to know

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Trade Unions Survived the Great War

Unions were weaker as a result of the general strike in 19 26, and also a whole swathe of additional workers were banned from joining trade unions. Despite that, they remained pretty much as they had been a in most industries. And there's not really a whole lot going on. Their licking their wounds. They're attempting to recover in individual work places. There are no huge national strikes a in that period, but neither are there their sort of massive defeats. Things go on on a surprisingly sort of stable level, really, in that, sort of, ah, 19 thirties period. The economy starts to build up later on in the 19Thirties, particularly with re

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