Workers’ revolt repealed Britain’s one-sided leaving certificate system.

Evidence

Th ese leaving certifi cates were highly unpopular (Hurwitz 1949, 107), and were fi ercely contested as a slavery clause. Th e rank and fi le all over the country revolted against a measure that tied the hands of the employee but not the employer, who was left free to fi re his workers and was not compelled to issue a certifi cate even once he fi red them. Th rough union bargaining, the certifi cates were repealed in October 1917. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 177

Categorization

• SHARE: A labor historian or industrial-relations colleague would enjoy the irony that the state-controlled labor allocation was identical on both sides.
• XREF: connects to: Britain’s leaving certificates capped wages by blocking worker mobility. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 176; Workers defeated the leaving-certificate wage cap through union revolt. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 177

Broader Connections

• Workers defeated the leaving-certificate wage cap through union revolt. #corroborates (0.90) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 177