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Prior to the industrial revolution, economies in Europe were dominated by the guild system which had originated in the Middle Ages. [4] The guilds were expected to protect the interests of the owners, labourers, and consumers through regulation of wages, prices, and standard business practices. [5]
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 ...
Cesario Estrada Chavez (/ ˈ tʃ ɑː v ɛ z /; Spanish:; March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American labor leader and civil rights activist. Along with Dolores Huerta and lesser known Gilbert Padilla, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union.
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)
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), whose members are nicknamed "Wobblies", is an international labor union founded in Chicago in 1905. The nickname's origin is uncertain. [5] Its ideology combines general unionism with industrial unionism, as it is a general union, subdivided between the various industries which employ its members.
Fair Labor Association (FLA) (a non-profit designed to complement existing international and national labor laws) Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) (an international union open to all laborers) International Centre for Trade Union Rights (an organizing and campaigning body for trade unions and trade unionists)
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 ...
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 social ownership.