Excerpt from Co-Operation at Home and Abroad: A Description and Analysis The Trade Union is, as its name signifies, intimately connected with the Operations of trade, but the Trade Union does not trade. It exists to bargain with, and, if necessary, to fight the employer on behalf of the employees; the employer, the business head, being by hypothesis excluded from it. If it has any other functions, they are those of the Friendly Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.