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By 1888 and 1889, new trade unions had used a series of strikes to gain better employment conditions for their members. This clip is introduced by Ben Tillet, who discusses the key problems for labourers in the 1880s and his work to promote greater equality. Many of the unions managed to increase wages and guarantee four hours of work per day. By 1891, one in four workers had become members of new unions, but the influences did not last long as by 1896, only one in ten remained in the new unions.