01787 a2200361 4500 131730957X 20250317111645.0 250312042019GB eng 9781317309574 Taylor & Francis GBP 41.99 BB 01 eng NHTB thema KCF thema NHD thema KCZ thema LAZ thema HBTB bic KCF bic HBJD1 bic KCZ bic LAZ bic BUS000000 bisac BUS069000 bisac HIS054000 bisac 331.294109034 bisac Christopher Frank Workers, Unions and Payment in Kind The Fight for Real Wages in Britain, 1820–1914 1 Oxford Routledge 20191025 306 p Despite the dramatic expansion of consumer culture from the beginning of the eighteenth century onwards and the developments in retailing, advertising and credit relationships in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there were a significant number of working families in Britain who were not fully free to consume as they chose. These employees were paid in truck, or in goods rather than currency. This book will explore and analyse the changing ways that truck and workplace deductions were experienced by different groups in British society, arguing that it was far more common than has previously been acknowledged. This analysis brings to light issues of class and gender; the discourse of free trade, popular politics and protest; the development of the trade union movement; and the use of the legal system as an instrument for bringing about social and legal change. 7943 7943