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  2. List of Industrial Workers of the World unions - Wikipedia

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    Metal Mine Workers' Industrial Union; Motor Transport Workers Industrial Union; Oil Workers' Industrial Union (existed in 1919) Printing and Publishing Workers' Industrial Union (existed in 1919) Railroad Workers' Industrial Union (existed in 1919) Rubber Workers' Industrial Union (existed in 1919) Shipbuilding Workers' Industrial Union ...

  3. Timeline of labour issues and events - Wikipedia

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    National Trades' Union formed in New York when the New York General Trades' Union solicited labor organizations from around the country to send delegates to a national convention. [8] This union was the first attempt to create a national labor federation. [6] 1834 (United States) Lowell, Massachusetts Mill Women's Strike. [6] 1834 (United States)

  4. Labour movement - Wikipedia

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    Nevertheless, without the continuous technological and international trade pressures during the Industrial Revolution, these trade unions remained sporadic and localised only to certain regions and professions, and there was not yet enough impetus for the formation of a widespread and comprehensive labour movement.

  5. List of trade unions - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of major independent trade unions, which are solely accountable to their members and free from employer domination as it stood on 31 March 2012. [ 2 ] Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen ASLEF

  6. Portal:Organized Labour - Wikipedia

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    It consists of the trade union or labour union movement, as well as political parties of labour. It can be considered an instance of class conflict . In trade unions , workers campaign for higher wages, better working conditions and fair treatment from their employers, and through the implementation of labour laws , from their governments.

  7. Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Even if Belgium is the second industrial country after Britain, the effect of the industrial revolution there was very different. In 'Breaking stereotypes', Muriel Neven and Isabelle Devious say: The Industrial Revolution changed a mainly rural society into an urban one, but with a strong contrast between northern and southern Belgium.

  8. Industrial unionism - Wikipedia

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    On July 12, 1919, The New England Worker published "The Principle of Industrial Union": The principle on which industrial unionism takes its stand is the recognition of the never ending struggle between the employers of labor and the working class. [The industrial union] must educate its members to a complete understanding of the principles and ...

  9. Syndicalism - Wikipedia

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    Hammer Torch and Cog used sometimes to represent Syndicalism . Syndicalism is a revolutionary current within the labour movement that, through industrial unionism, seeks to unionize workers according to industry and advance their demands through strikes and other forms of direct action, with the eventual goal of gaining control over the means of production and the economy at large through ...