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National Anti-Sweating League

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is the name adopted by two groups of social reformers in Australia and Britain at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Both campaigned against the poor conditions endured by many workers in so-called
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The National Anti-Sweating League was an all-party pressure group formed in 1906 with a 3-day conference in the
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Australia's First Fabians: Middle-class Radicals, Labour Activists and the Early Labour Movement
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was another member. Their efforts resulted in wage regulation via the Factory Act of 1896.
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Historical groups of labor organisations in Australia and the UK
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on 29 Jul 1895, with Rev. Alexander Gosman as president,
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The National Anti-Sweating League was inaugurated in
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Index

Anti-Sweating League
sweatshops
minimum wage
Melbourne
Samuel Mauger
Alfred Deakin
Vida Goldstein
Guildhall, London
trade unions
Alfred George Gardiner
R. H. Tawney
Mary Reid Macarthur
Lady Astor
George Shann
Trade Boards Act 1909
state of Victoria, Australia
Anti-sweatshop movement
ISBN
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Sweated Industry and the Minimum Wage
Categories
Reform movements
Minimum wage
Australian labour law
United Kingdom labour law

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