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The National Committee of Organised Labour for Promoting Old Age Pensions for All, often shortened to National Committee of Organised Labour, was a British campaign group established at the end of the nineteenth century which sought the introduction of a general-tax funded old-age pension. The campaign succeeded with the introduction of the Old Age Pensions Act 1908.

Origins

Poverty in old age was, in the late 19th century, widely recognised by social reformers

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