guild socialism

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Guild socialism was a British political and economic movement that advocated worker-controlled industrial guilds operating within a decentralized socialist framework.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf economic theory
political ideology
socialist movement
associatedWith A. R. Orage
G. D. H. Cole
National Guilds League
S. G. Hobson
The New Age (magazine)
coreIdea decentralized socialist framework
self-governing industrial guilds
separation of political and industrial power
worker control of industry through industrial guilds
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
declineReason practical difficulties in implementation
rise of other socialist currents in the Labour Party
developedIn early 20th century
differsFrom Soviet-style central planning
corporatism
economicModel guilds manage production
state represents consumers
goal collective ownership with worker control
elimination of wage slavery
hasConcept consumer sovereignty through the state
dual power of state and guilds
guild control of production
national guilds
influenced labour movement debates in Britain
later theories of industrial democracy
some strands of democratic socialism
influencedBy British trade unionism
Fabian socialism
medieval craft guilds
syndicalism
opposes capitalist private ownership of industry
state socialism
peakPeriod 1910s
early 1920s
proposedBy G. D. H. Cole
relatedTo cooperative movement
labourism
syndicalism
supports functional representation in politics
industrial democracy
public ownership of the means of production
workers’ self-management

Referenced by (1)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Arts and Crafts movement
associatedConcept

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