LABRST 1C03 Lecture Notes - Social Movement Unionism, Rand Formula, Business Unionism
1 Apr 2013
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** key terms: unions, rand formula, industrial unions, craft unions, business unionism, social movement unionism, revolutionary unionism. Owners want to pay the least possible for workers to work at maximum productivity. Workers wants to be able to control as much of their work as possible and maximize their benefits. Workers have more power when acting together than they do when acting alone. Guilds were early forms of worker organizations. They were found in highly specialized forms of labour such as printing, weaving and metalsmithing. The knowledge and supply of labour were controlled by guilds. They had a highly rigid hierarchical structure. The accumulation by dispossession and the industrial revolution created the conditions for the making of the working class. The working class is forced to sell its labour (potential to work) in order to make a living. Workers through a process of centralization mechanization and scientific management lost control over their work (alienation).
