Social reform
Found in 310 Collections and/or Records:
Main volume II: briefs and notes, 1966
Notes by RSC's research assistants Alan Thompson and Robert Taylor. Subjects include: WSC and Free Trade; the Board of Trade; WSC and sweated labour; unemployment insurance and labour exchanges; the Home Office; Ireland.
Minutes of meetings of the Cambridge University Socialist Society and its precursor, Cambridge University Fabian Society, signed, 1911 - 1958
The records that survive are all minute books with a few items such as publicity leaflets enclosed.
Minutes of meetings of the committee of the Cambridge Fabian Society, signed, 1977-10-02 - 1984-02-05
Includes detailed results of elections, lists of committee post holders (at rear) and a 'Handbook and Programme' for Michaelmas Term 1983. The handbook contains a forward by Rt Hon Michael Foot MP, the Chairperson's introduction, a list of officers and of the committee, the programme of speakers and events (to include David Blunkett, later MP) and a transcript of Clause 4 of the Labour Party Constitution.
"Observations on 'The case for and against a legal minimum wage for sewated workers' published by the Women's Industrial Council", 27 April [1908]
Official: Board of Trade, 1906 - 1911
Official: Board of Trade: Boy Labour: printed papers., 20 Feb 1908 - 1909
Official: Board of Trade: Continental Unemployment Insurance and Labour Exchanges: notes and printed papers., 28 Sep 1908 - 27 Aug 1909
Official: Board of Trade: correspondence., 14 Feb 1910 - 24 Sep 1910
Official: Board of Trade: Labour Exchanges: notes and printed papers., 21 Jan 1909 - 28 Jan 1910
Official: Board of Trade: Miners' Eight Hour Bill: notes and papers., 12 Jan 1908 - 16 Nov 1908
Includes: reports on the Northumberland and Durham miners' strikes; General Considerations on the Eight Hours' Day; an opinion by William Brace, miners' representative [Labour MP for South Glamorgan, Wales]; a list of returns on capital invested in coal mines; WSC's speech to the House of Commons on the Eight Hour Bill; the summary of the Miners' Eight Hour Bill Committee report; amendments to the dating of the bill.
Official: Board of Trade: Trade Boards and Sweated Industries Bills, Home Work Committee: notes and printed papers., 08 Aug 1907 - 15 Mar 1909
Includes: Comparison of Recommendations of the Home Work Committee with the Proposals of the Trade Boards Bill; annotated copies of the 1907 and 1908 Reports of the Select Committee on Home Work.
Official: Board of Trade: Trade Boards Bill, Sweated Industries Bill: notes and papers., 18 Feb 1908 - 09 Apr 1909
Official: Board of Trade: Trades Unions, Unemployment Insurance: notes and papers., 28 May 1907 - 13 Sep 1909
Includes: unemployment graphs from the trades unions, 1899-1909; a memorandum on Unemployment Insurance and the benefits in the principal unions; a memorandum on the growth of the trades unions, with particular reference to unemployment benefit; a memorandum on the influence of the unions on labour exchanges and unemployment insurance.
Official: Board of Trade: Unemployment in Germany: printed papers., Jan 1907 - 01 May 1909
German papers and booklets on unemployment insurance, including health insurance and employment offices.
Official: Board of Trade: Unemployment in Germany: specimens of forms., Oct 1908 - 16 Sep 1909
Printed German application forms for unemployment insurance, including forms for: medical treatment; old age and invalidity insurance; the return of contributions on marriage or death.
Official: Board of Trade: Unemployment Insurance, Labour Exchanges Bill: notes and papers., 30 Nov 1908 - 11 Sep 1909
Official: Board of Trade: Unemployment Insurance: printed papers., 21 Feb 1906 - 04 Apr 1911
Official: Board of Trade: Unemployment: notes and papers., 20 Nov 1908 - 13 Dec 1908
Includes: a note by WSC on the need to rearrange the Board of Trade's Labour Department; "Unemployment: A Problem of Industry" by William Beveridge (lectures delivered at Oxford, October - November 1908); "Notes on a Scheme for Unemployed Insurance" by Sidney Webb [later 1st Lord Passfield]; "Labour Exchanges and Compulsory Insurance" by Sir Charles McLaren and Harold Cox.
Official: Cabinet: Conclusions 10 - 15., 06 Mar 1929 - 10 Apr 1929
Includes minutes of Cabinet meetings recording decisions on various subjects including: unemployment and unemployment insurance; immigration from Ireland; petrol prices; foreign affairs in China, Germany, India; the United States and the prohibition treaty; the reduction and limitation of armaments; the proposed Baghdad [Iraq] to Haifa [Israel] railway and pipeline; radium research; the Channel Tunnel; the report of the Commission on East Africa; and the budget.
Official: Cabinet: correspondence., 13 Feb 1911 - 01 Nov 1911
Official: Cabinet: Distressed Areas Committee., 07 Dec 1928 - 18 Dec 1928
Official: Cabinet: Emergency Business Committee: papers 41 - 76., 13 May 1929 - 28 May 1929
Includes suggested replies to questions put to Conservative candidates on a variety of issues including: disarmament arbitration; war debts and reparations; the Kellogg pact; employment of young people; talking films; tied cottages; service pensions; cruelty to animals; taxation of liquor and policy regarding prohibition; education policy; widows and orphans funds; lunacy reform; co-operative societies; motor taxation; and state aid for the deaf.Also includes a letter from Rupert Howorth.
Official: Cabinet: Housing Bill: Notes and papers., 1908 - 1909
Includes: typescript notes on the Housing and Town Planning Act which cover the duties of County Councils regarding sanitation, slum clearance and the provision of new housing for the poor; WSC's manuscript notes on the extent of poverty and appalling housing conditions revealed by [Seebohm] Rowntree's study of conditions in York and a London County Council report on housing for the working classes.
Official: Cabinet: Northern Ireland Unemployment Insurance Committee., 23 Mar 1925 - 05 Nov 1925
Official: Cabinet: Northern Ireland Unemployment Insurance Committee., 01 Feb 1926 - 05 Feb 1926
Includes: the conclusions of the committee; a draft of the Unemployment Insurance (Northern Ireland Agreement) Bill; a Treasury note on the estimated financial effect of the Unemployment Insurance Agreement.