Author: W. J. Ghent

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-11-29

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9781334442988

Excerpt from Appeal Socialist Classics, 1916, Vol. 7: Socialism and Organized Labor The original and the still dominant form of the modern labor union is the trade-union, the organization of workers by crafts. In England trade-unionism began before the Socialist movement. On the continent the early unions were small and weak, and unionism became a power only with the growth of Socialism. The English union movement, wrote Bebel, arose from the class struggle of the English workingmen with the employers. No political party stood by its cradle, served as its nurse and took it under its protection. It was otherwise in Germany. The labor movement, which was born in Germany in the revolutionary period, met an early death, before it had come to Years of understanding. It came to its end through the reaction which began in the second half of the year 1849 and lasted till the end of 1850. But when, at the close of the fifties, the political stagnation came to an end, when the middle class resumed its political activity and formed the National Union as its organization, the working class also began to start into life. The French unions declined with the suppression of the revolt of July, 1848, but though reviving somewhat during the later years of Louis Napoleon's reign, did not become strong until more than a decade after the Commune. Complete free dom of combination was not won until 1884. In other European countries, as a rule, trade-union development has been coin eident with Socialist development. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.