An ambivalent relationship: Thomas Caddy, the Drapers' Association and the Sydney Trades and Labor Council's forgotten cooperation over early closing

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Bastian, Peter and Quayle, Victor. (2016). An ambivalent relationship: Thomas Caddy, the Drapers' Association and the Sydney Trades and Labor Council's forgotten cooperation over early closing. Labour History. 110(May 2016), pp. 19 - 33. https://doi.org/10.5263/labourhistory.110.0019
AuthorsBastian, Peter and Quayle, Victor
Abstract

Attempts by retail workers to limit their hours of employment through campaigns for the early closing of shops have received only limited attention. Yet, Sydney's drapery community played a longstanding and prominent role in this movement. In the 1880s, Thomas Caddy helped foster an alliance, now completely forgotten, between the Drapers' Association and the Sydney Trades and Labor Council to campaign for early closing by moral suasion. These moves ended in failure and revealed the problems associated with using moral suasion tactics, the fluidity of early worker affiliations, the strengths and limitations of early peak union councils and the changing status of workers within the drapery trade.

Year2016
JournalLabour History
Journal citation110 (May 2016), pp. 19 - 33
PublisherAustralian Society for the Study of Labour History
ISSN0023-6942
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.5263/labourhistory.110.0019
Scopus EID2-s2.0-84978878030
Page range19 - 33
Research GroupSchool of Arts
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Place of publicationAustralia
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