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London Trades Council Papers on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: 5215 mf

Abstract

Minutes and papers of the London Trades Council.

Dates

  • 1860-1953

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

Biographical / Historical

The London Trades Council was a labour organisation, uniting London's trade unionists. It was founded in May 1860, it was one of four such organisations, including the Sheffield Trades Council, the Glasgow Trades Council and the Edinburgh Trades Council.

The Council helped organise labor to stand up to the employers for better working conditions.

Once the Trades Union Congress (TUC) was founded in 1868, the Labor Trades Council lost their national leadership role, but, stayed the most important trades council in the country.

By 1953 the Council had become quite radical and was re-organised by the TUC and re-founded as the London Federation of Trades Councils, which became the Greater London Association of Trades Councils (GLATC), in 1974.

Extent

1.22 cubic feet

Quantity:

11 microfilm reels

Forms of Material:

Minutes (administrative records), papers (documents), microfilm.

General

Contact Information:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
Compiled by:
Kheel Staff, May 13, 2014
EAD encoding:
Randall Miles, February 21, 2017
Title
London Trades Council Papers on Microfilm
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Kheel Staff
Date
February 21, 2017
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Revision Statements

  • 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

Contact:
227 Ives Hall Tower Road
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3183