The Trade Boards Act of 1909 established trade boards empowered to fix minimum wage rates in certain unorganised trades such as clothing, where feeling had been aroused against 'sweated wages'.
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Records of the Tailoring Trade Boards and the Ready Made and Wholesale Bespoke Tailoring Trade Board
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Shirt-making Trade Board, 1914-1919
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