Notes on the Manchester Warehouse Employees Association made by A. G. Fowler, lecturer, Manchester Polytechnic

Includes a list of records of the Manchester Warehouse Employees Association, formerly the Manchester Makers Up Society (Piece Goods), Manchester Shipping Warehouseman's Society and the Society of Female Workers in the Shipping Industry and notes on the societies. Also includes extracts from the records of the unions: No. 1 Society Makers Up (balance sheets, membership figures, unemployment figures 1903-1940); Manchester Hydraulic Packers Society (minutes, accounts, unemployment payments 1913-1941); Manchester Shipping Warehousemen's Society (minutes, balance sheets, unemployment payments 1900-1938); Manchester Society of Print & Grey Cloth Workers & General Warehouse Workers (balance sheets 1915); Society of Female Workers in the Shipping Industry (balance sheets 1931-1936); Kindred Trades Federation in the Export Shipping Industry (balance sheets 1914-1928). Also includes letters to and from A. G. Fowler regarding unions' and firms' records and articles by A. G. Fowler: 'Twentieth Century Trade Clubs: A Study in Cotton Trade Unionism', Textile History, 1973 (see Local Studies 331.881772 Fo1) and articles on packing, 1927, 1930 and n.d. See MISC card for more details.

Place:/Manchester/Manchester/Lancashire/England