Trade Union Movement

Trade Union Movement

Along with Emma Smith Paterson, Simcox established numerous Trade Unions for shirtmakers, tailoresses and tailors, nailmakers, bookmakers, miners, metallurgists, tenants and lodgers, and hammermen. They established these unions in London, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield, and Portsmouth. In 1875, Simcox and Paterson went to Glasgow as the first women delegates to the Trade Unions Congress; they also established the Shirt and Collar Makers Union in 1875.

Trade Union Congresses

	Glasgow	October, 1875
	Newcastle-upon-Tyne	September, 1876
	Bristol	September, 1878
	London	September, 1881
	Paris	October, 1883
	London	November, 1888
	Paris	September, 1889
	London	Summer, 1892

Other Trade Union organizers included

Annie Besant	Charles Bradlaw	Sydney Buxton	John Hales
Stewart Headlam	George Holyoake	Harriet Law	William Morris
Thomas Paterson	Frederick Verney

Other websites on this subject:

Trades Union Congress official site (current information about the unions in the U.K.)
History of Trade Union Movement (information on members, unions, legislation, issues, events, journals, and newspapers during Simcox's time)
How Much is That? (determine the value of money in today's terms; e.g., 8 pounds, 7 shillings in the year 1870 is equivalent to 406 pounds, 57 shillings in the year 2000.)