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Industrial unionism contrasts with Craft Unionism , which organizes workers along lines of their specific trades, even if leads to multiple union locals (with different contracts) in the same workplace. In the United States , the Congress Of Industrial Organizations (CIO) primarily practiced industrial unionism prior to its merger with the American Federation Of Labor (AFL), made up mostly of craft unions. The Industrial Workers Of The World (IWW) organized even more broadly, seeking to unite the entire Working Class into One Big Union which would struggle for improved working conditions and wages in the short term, while working to overthrow Capitalism through a General Strike , after which the union would manage production (''see Anarcho-syndicalism ).'' The theory and practice of industrial unionism is not confined to the western, English speaking world. The Korean Confederation Of Trade Unions ( KCTU ) is committed to reorganizing their current union structure along the lines of industrial unionism. The Congress Of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) is also organized along the lines of industrial unionism. REVOLUTIONARY INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM Verity Burgmann asserts in ''Revolutionary industrial unionism'' that the . The IWW's politics in 2005 mirror Burgmann's analysis: the IWW does not proclaim Syndicalism , or Anarchism (despite the large number of anarcho-syndicalist members) but instead advocates ''Revolutionary Industrial Unionism''. REFERENCES Burgmann, Verity. ''Revolutionary industrial unionism : the Industrial Workers of the World in Australia.'' Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1995. |
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