Lister’s Mill, Bradford, West Yorkshire
■ Before the 1880s, trade unions resisted activism in parliamentary elections. However, depression led to a change in tactics. Meetings of the TUC were dominated by demands for state intervention to solve economic problems and for working-class representation in Parliament. Protest became increasingly militant, for example:
■ the strike of the London Match Girls in 1888 and their subsequent unionisation by Annie Besant and H. H. Champion
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