Trade unions: everything you wanted to know

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🗓️ 10 April 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Mark Crail tackles popular internet search queries and listener questions about the history of Britain’s trade union movement and its attempts to secure better conditions for the country’s workers. He talks to Jon Bauckham about the 19th-century origins of the unions, their connection with the Labour Party, and their role in strikes through the centuries. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.
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0:15.7	Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.
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0:30.3	Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Reveal.
0:56.0	I'm Ellie Cawthorne.
0:58.5	What is a trade union?
1:01.2	What did they fight for in the past?
1:07.1	And what role did unions play in both the Great Depression and the formation of the Labour Party?
1:13.4	On today's Everything You Want to Know podcast, we're delving into the history of Britain's trade unions and taking a look at the battles that have taken place to improve workers' rights
1:19.3	from the early decades of the 19th century to the present day. Answering your questions
1:24.9	was the writer and labour movement expert Mark Crail, and he spoke to John Borkham.
1:31.6	So to kick us off then, Mark, could you just start by telling us what a trade union actually is?
1:37.1	What's the most basic definition?
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