One Big Union

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One Big Union is a labor movement concept advocating that all workers join a single, unified union to collectively challenge capitalist exploitation and control industry democratically.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf labor movement concept
trade unionism strategy
aimsTo challenge capitalist exploitation
democratize control of industry
maximize workers’ collective bargaining power
overcome divisions between different craft and industrial unions
unite workers across trades, industries, and skill levels
associatedWith industrial unionism
revolutionary unionism
socialist labor movements
syndicalism
contrastsWith business unionism
emphasizes the need for unified organization to confront capital
the working class as a single class with common interests
goal replacement of capitalist management with democratic worker control
workers’ collective control over production
hasCoreIdea all workers should belong to a single, unified union
historicallyLinkedTo debates within the labor movement about union structure
early 20th-century radical labor movements
influencedBy Marxist ideas about class struggle
syndicalist ideas about workers’ control
opposes craft unionism
fragmentation of workers into many small unions
strategyIncludes coordinated industrial action
cross-industry solidarity actions
mass strikes
supports class-wide organization of workers
direct action by workers
solidarity across different sectors of the working class
viewsCapitalismAs a system based on exploitation of labor

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