• Tailoring Trade Boards and the Ready Made and Wholesale Bespoke Tailoring Trade Board, 1910-1925

  • 1910-1925
  • Collection
  • This collection contains: unsigned minutes of the Boards, their administrative and district trade committees and other meetings.
  • 3 boxes
  • 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'
  • This collection has been weeded for duplicates
  • There are no restrictions on access to these papers.
  • Open
  • Records of the Corset Trade Board
  • Records of the Shirt-making Trade Board
  • English