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Accion sindical colectiva y represion en los talleres de las companias ferroviarias Britanicas entre 1840-1914

The article examines collective trade union action and managerial responses within British Railway Company Workshops during the period 1840-1914. These centres were some of the largest industrial plants in Britain, the Great Western Railway shops at Swindon employing 14,000 men in the 1900s. Based on extensive research carried out on the railway company in The National Archives, the paper provides a vision of how employees of these various rail companies coordinated effective action. This questions the traditional historiography of the British labour/trade union movement that portrays these men as totally compliant to the railway companies.