Chapter XIII: Section IV: Combinations of Workmen

1. A Strike of the Journeymen Feltmakers, 1696-99 619

2. A Petition of Master Tailors against Combination among
the Journeymen, 1721 622

3. A Dispute in the Northumberland and Durham Coal
Industry, 1765 625

4. Sickness and Unemployment Benefit Clubs among the
Woolcombers, 1794 626

5. Combination Act, 1799 626

6. Combination Act, 1800 627

7. The Scottish Weavers' Strike, 1812 631

8. The Repeal of the Combination Acts, 1824 633

9. A Prosecution of Strikers under the Common Law of
Conspiracy, 1810 635

10. An Act Revising the Law affecting Combinations, 1825 636

11. The Conviction of the Dorchester Labourers, 1834 638

12. An Address of the Working Men's Association to Queen
Victoria, 1837 641

13. A Chartist Manifesto on the Sacred Month, 1839 642

14. The Rochdale Pioneers, 1844 643

SECTION V

THE RELIEF OF THE POOR

1. Settlement Law, 1662 647

2. Defoe's Pamphlet "Giving Alms no Charity," 1704 649

3. The Workhouse Test Act, 1722 650

4. Gilbert's Act, 1782 652

5. Speenhamland "Act of Parliament," 1795 655

6. The Workhouse System, 1797 657

7. Two Varieties of the Roundsman System of Relief, 1797 660

8. Another Example of the Roundsman System, 1808 660

9. A Report of the Poor Law Commission, 1834 661

10. The Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834 663

11. Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Order, 1844 664