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Industrial union   /ɪndˈəstriəl jˈunjən/   Listen
Industrial union

noun
1.
A labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft.  Synonym: vertical union.





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"Industrial union" Quotes from Famous Books



... parties who now looked for a happy future unvexed by new factions were doomed to disappointment. The funeral of the Greenback party was hardly over before there arose two other political specters in the agrarian sections: the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, particularly strong in the South and West; and the Farmers' Alliance, operating in the North. By 1890 the two orders claimed over three million members. As in the case of the Grangers many years before, the leaders ...
— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard


Words linked to "Industrial union" :   trade union, vertical union, United Mine Workers of America, trades union, union, United Mine Workers, labor union, brotherhood, Teamsters Union


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