syndicalismn.
/ˈsɪndɪkəlɪz(ə)m/ A movement among industrial workers having as its object the transfer of the means of production and distribution from their present owners to unions of workers for the benefit of the workers, the method generally favoured for the accomplishment of this being the general strike. See Sir A. Clay Syndicalism & Labour, 1911, A. W. Kirkaldy Economics & Syndicalism, 1914.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific political theories or doctrines > [noun] > syndicalism or anarcho-syndicalism
syndicalism1907
anarcho-syndicalism1922
society > occupation and work > working > association of employers or employees > [noun] > trade union > trade unionism > systems or doctrines of
industrial unionism1870
tuxedo unionism1895
syndicalism1907
anarcho-syndicalism1922
voluntarism1924
1907 Contemp. Rev. June 778 ‘Syndicalism’ has a bad odour with the ‘respectable’ artisan.
1912 J. H. Harley in Contemp. Rev. Mar. 349 Syndicalism, open or baptised under the name of Industrial Unionism, is one of the unsettling influences in the world of workers.
Derivatives
ˈsyndicalist n. [French syndicaliste] an adherent or advocate of syndicalism.
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society > occupation and work > worker > those involved in labour relations > [noun] > members of trade or labour union > supporter or advocate of
industrial unionist1882
anarcho-syndicalist1907
syndicalist1907
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific political theories or doctrines > [adjective] > syndicalist or anarcho-syndicalist
syndicalist1907
anarcho-syndicalist1911
syndicalistic1912
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific political theories or doctrines > [noun] > syndicalism or anarcho-syndicalism > adherent of
anarcho-syndicalist1907
syndicalist1907
1907 Nation 23 Nov. 259/1 The Syndicalists urged a general strike, not only of the railways, but of all workmen, thus hoping to throw the whole country into anarchy.
1907 S. Dewey in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 276/2 The Syndicalist movement—a sort of revolutionary, as distinguished from political, trade-unionism.
1911 G. B. Shaw in Times 24 Oct. 9/6 The most dangerous rivals of the Parliamentary Labour Parties in France and England just now are the Syndicalists.
1962 V. Nabokov Pale Fire 77 We find him next..printing peevish pamphlets, acting as messenger for obscure syndicalist groups.
1974 J. White tr. N. Poulantzas Fascism & Dictatorship iii. iii. 132 At the same time there was the first rupture with the ‘left’ syndicalist wing of the movement.
1976 New Yorker 3 May 89/1 Marcos has said that he wants to encourage trade unionism, but the fact is that, while his government countenances unions, it appears in some ways to be moving toward the creation of a syndicalist state not unlike Mussolini's Fascist corporate state.
1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Nov. 775/2 Here we have then a typical ‘vest-pocket utopia’ a form of syndicalist and local organization being collaged into the existing fabric, both formally and politically.
syndicaˈlistic adj.
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society > occupation and work > working > association of employers or employees > [adjective] > belonging to trade unionism > systems or doctrines
syndical1907
syndicalistic1912
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific political theories or doctrines > [adjective] > syndicalist or anarcho-syndicalist
syndicalist1907
anarcho-syndicalist1911
syndicalistic1912
1912 Daily News 20 Mar. 1 There was nothing particularly syndicalistic about a request for a minimum wage.
1919 M. Beer Hist. Brit. Socialism I. ii. x. 286 The organised working class turned syndicalistic.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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