A union spoke for all the workers in a particular trade. Unions would sometimes engage in collective bargaining or strikes for things such as better working conditions and higher pay.
Mostly skilled workers led the way in unions due to their special skills, they felt that with these skills they had more bargaining power.
Although slow, the union movement went through painful growth in both Great Britain and the United States. Eventually the combination acts of 1799 and 1800 outlawed unions and strikes, but parliament finally repealed the combination acts of 1824 and soon after the British government unhappily tolerated unions again.
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