Topics discussed include the 1913 strike, the manufacture of aircraft frames during WWI, the increasing employment of women in the workforce, the General Strike of 1926, and the hardships of the early 1930s. Successive negotiations between the employers and the trade unions are minuted. There is a wealth of data on daily wage rates for the different classes of work over more than 20 years. A goldmine for social historians of the period.
Including covers, endpapers, interleaved correspondence and newspaper articles the images amount to 1,523 pages in total. Where correspondence and cuttings are interleaved I have scanned both pages of the minute book first and then scanned whatever material is interleaved. I have scanned the newspaper articles in sequential sections so that the reader sees everything in the correct order. As not all segments are the same shape, size or length, this leads to some variations in the sizes of contiguous scanned images.
© Julian Parker 2020
