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Whitley Council

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noun

  1. any of a number of organizations made up of representatives of employees and employers for joint consultation on and settlement of industrial relations and conditions for a particular industry or service

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Etymology

Origin of Whitley Council

C20: named after J. H. Whitley (1866–1935), chairman of the committee that recommended setting up such councils (1917)

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There has been great disappointment with the results of the Whitley Council movement.

From Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 by Various

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