Silk Workers' Unions

Minute books of the Amalgamated Society of Silk Pickers, Amalgamated Society of Silk and Cotton Dyers, Amalgamated Society of Braid Workers and Kindred Trades, Amalgamated Society of Women Workers, Amalgamated Society of Spinners, Throwers and Reelers, Associated Trimming Weavers Society of Leek and District and Leek Textile Federation.

Records of the Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers and Kindred Trades including annual reports, minutes and correspondence, rules, circulars, agreements, other papers and branch records.

Records of the National Silk Workers Association including annual reports, minute books and Executive Council papers.

Records of the Joint Industrial Council for the Silk Industry including reports, minutes and other papers

Papers from other organisations related to the silk industry

The Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers and Kindred Trades was formed in 1919 as a successor to the Leek Textile Federation. It was formed from six local organisations: the Amalgamated Society of Silk Pickers, the Amalgamated Society of Braid Workers and Kindred Trades, the Amalgamated Society of Silk and Cotton Dyers, the Amalgamated Society of Women Workers, the Amalgamated Society of Silk, Spinners, Throwsters and Reelers and Leek Spun Silk Dressers Union. In 1992 it changed to the Union of Textile Workers and in 2002 it merged with Amicus. In 2007 Amicus amalgamated with the Transport and General Workers Union to form Unite.

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These records were organised and listed by John Percy. Amended and catalogued by Kate Hart, Dec 2008, as part of 'The past meets the present', HLF project. Description compiled by Kate Hart, Mar 2010 and updated by Jane Taylor, May 2020.