LBST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Deskilling, Winnipeg General Strike
1 Mar 2018
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Formal organizations that represent workers through processes such as collective bargaining. Sometimes go on strike to press for better pay, conditions & benefits. Connections between unions & society: trade unions evolved simultaneously with capitalism; workers had to defend & promote their economic & political interests. Since 1850s, large and growing populations have joined the working classes of world (due to immigration & political change) and are now engaged in wage labour). Theories of unions (ross et al): unions as economic actors, unions as a democratizing force, unions as creators of community, unions as agents of revolutionary change. Revolutionary unions: associated with craft unions, associated with industrial unions. Sought to not only organize all workers (including women and racialized workers) Industrial unions: more radical approach in organizing workers, canadian "branch plant" economy (industrial development based on expansion of international, particularly us, capital to canada) created business unionism (bureaucratic forms of control) but also more radical forms of unionism:
