Illustration of a strike meeting A detailed, full-length history of the UK Chartist general strike of 1842 against pay cuts and for universal male suffrage, by Mick Jenkins with an introduction by John Foster. Copied to clipboard General-strike-1842.pdf (10.94 MB) manufacturing and materials strikes general strikes United Kingdom Chartists 1842 general strike Mick Jenkins PDF
The general strike of 1842 As many as half a million workers may have been caught up in a strike wave which linked demands for the Charter and an end to pay cuts. This page…
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The 1842 Strike In the summer of 1842 a great wave of strikes engulfed Lancashire and Yorkshire. The wave began in the Staffordshire coalfield in July when the miners went on strike for fewer hours and more…
