Catalogue description Silk Workers' Unions

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Details of TU/SILK
Reference: TU/SILK
Title: Silk Workers' Unions
Description:

Minute books of the Amalgamated Society of Silk Pickers, Amalgamated Society of Silk and Cotton Dyers, Amalgamated Society of Braid Workers and Kindred Trades, Amalgamated Society of Women Workers, Amalgamated Society of Spinners, Throwers and Reelers, Associated Trimming Weavers Society of Leek and District and Leek Textile Federation.
Records of the Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers and Kindred Trades including annual reports, minutes and correspondence, rules, circulars, agreements and other papers and branch records.
Records of the National Silk Workers and Textile Trades Federation including annual reports, minute books and Executive Council papers.
Records of the Joint Industrial Council for the Silk Industry including reports, minutes and other papers
Papers from other organisations related to the silk industry
Date: 1873-1996
Arrangement:

Series 1: Amalgamated Society of Silk Pickers
Series 2: Leek Amalgamated Society of Silk and Cotton Dyers
Series 3: Amalgamated Society of Braid Workers and Kindred Trades
Series 4: Amalgamated Society of Women Workers
Series 5: Amalgamated Society of Spinners, Throwers and Reelers
Series 6: Associated Trimming Weavers Society of Leek and District
Series 7: Leek Textile Federation
Series 8: Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers and Kindred Trades
Series 9: National Silk Workers Association
Series 10: Macclesfield Silk Trade Employers' Association
Series 11: Joint Industrial Council for the Silk Industry
Series 12: Other silk industry papers
Held by: Working Class Movement Library, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 29 boxes
Access conditions:

Open for consultation
Administrative / biographical background:

The Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers and Kindred Trades was formed in 1919 as a successor to the Leek Textile Federation. It was formed from six local organisations: the Amalgamated Society of Silk Pickers, the Amalgamated Society of Braid Workers and Kindred Trades, the Amalgamated Society of Silk and Cotton Dyers, the Amalgamated Society of Women Workers, the Amalgamated Society of Silk, Spinners, Throwsters and Reelers and Leek Spun Silk Dressers Union. In 1992 it changed to the Union of Textile Workers and in 2002 it merged with AMICUS. In 2007 AMICUS amalgamated with the Transport and General Workers Union to form UNITE.

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