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To the casual observer, all strikes are very much alike. Commonly they appear to have their origins in a wage dispute of some sort, and are characterised throughout by a mutual hostility between employer and employee. Closer investigation, however, is likely to reveal that there is very much more to many strikes in the second half of the 19th century than this. Not all strikes were over wages, nor did a strike necessarily indicate deep-seated bad relationships between master and men. It may be instructive, therefore, to review the major strikes in an important industry in one particular locality, and to attempt to assess the basic elements in each strike situation. This article deals principally with the most serious strikes between 1850 and 1914 in the most important district in Victorian Britain for the manufacture of high quality glass tableware.
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