The rise and fall of the asylum worker's association: the history of a 'company union'.
In the nineteenth century, the only method open to asylum nurses and attendants to air a grievance, apart from resigning from their employment, was to present a petition to their employing authorities. In fact they were still making use of the petition as late as 1899, when a petition was presented in London, by attendants in favour of shorter hours. (This was turned down for reasons of expense.)
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