Labor socialist · Late 19th–early 20th centuries onward

Syndicalism

Treats organized labor as a central source of economic and political power. Unions and collective action can transfer control of production toward workers.

Foundational doctrines

Disagreement and variation

Revolutionary and reformist versions differ, as do views on the state and on how workplace representation includes people outside established unions. Revolutionary and reformist syndicalists differ; the anarchist rejection of all state power is not shared by every syndicalist.

Source and historical context

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