Excerpt from Trade Unionism The efforts put forward in favour of social reform seem to have been more successful, and many of the organisations became almost parts of the Chartist Movement. Where the organisations did not become part of the Chartist Movement, many of the leaders took very active part in it. It is not intended or possible to go very much into the details of the Chartist Movement in this volume, but a passing reference is necessary to show each stage in the progress of what has been the basis upon which the structure of the Trade Unions of to-day has been built. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.