Industrial unionism: some documents

Fisher, Chris

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Industrial unionism: some documents

Date

1993

Authors

Fisher, Chris

Publisher

Law and Politics of Industrial Relations Project, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University

Abstract

Industrial unionism has been an important idea in the history of the labour movement. During and after the First World War, schemes for restructuring unionism and the whole of capitalist society drew upon the principle of organising the power of the workers in industrial departments of the One Big Union.