num_pages: 197
description: This volume examines a wide variety of collective and organized labour movements in what is arguably a distinct period in labour history. The approach is a comparative one, looking particularly at the United Kingdom, Germany, France and the Low Countries, but also at Western Europe in general.
language: English
title: Before the Unions: Wage Earners and Collective Action in Europe, 1300-1850
titlecomplete: Before the Unions: Wage Earners and Collective Action in Europe, 1300-1850 (International Review of Social History Supplements, Series Number 2)
publisher: Cambridge University Press