Syndicalism

[Bac Ho]

I'd like to know more about Syndicalism, not Anarcho-Syndicalism, I am knowledgeable on that matter, but I am in debate, and next years topic is Civil Liberties, I was thinking of using Anarcho-Syndicalism or Syndicalism for debate. Could anyone give me more inormation on Syndicalism or less known info on Anarcho-Syndicalism?

[rebelworker]

From what I have heard, Syndicallism largely developed form anorchosyndicalism, Most developed in france where the labour movment still speaks of Autogestion or self management, I guess the IWW can be more considered striaght syndicallism, as they were heavily influenced by anarchism but not an ideologically pur organisation by any sreach of the imagination.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

http://www.syndicalist.org/

http://www.anarchosyndicalism.net/as.php

http://www.anarchosyndicalism.net/faq/

All anarcho-syndicalism sites

And from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicalism

"Syndicalism is a political and economic ideology which advocates giving control of both industry and government to labor union federations. Syndicalisme is a French word meaning "trade unionism". This milder version of syndicalism was overshadowed by revolutionary anarcho-syndicalism in the early 20th century, which was most powerful in Spain, but appeared in other parts of the world as well.

A model syndicalist community is as follows. The local unit, the syndicat, would communicate with other syndicats through the bourse de travail (labour exchange). The bourse would handle management and the transfer of commodities.

Syndicalism forms one of the three most common theories of a pre-managed economic and labor structure. It believes, on an ethical basis, that all participants in each organized trade internally share equal ownership of its output and therefore deserve equal earnings and benefits within that particular trade, regardless of position or duty. This contrasts socialism's emphasis on the distribution of output from all different trades to one another as required by each trade, not necessarily considering how those trades organize themselves internally. Both these systems of pre-organized economic structure can theoretically include variations on privatism, unlike the third such pre-arranged egalitarian strand, namely communism. Communism supports the abolition of government-sanctioned private ownership and private earnings in favor of making all property legally public, and therefore solely the responsibility of the state and/or the community.

Instances of syndicalism in power, during the Spanish Revolution or the 1956 Hungarian Revolution rapidly approach the economic organisation of communism, often within weeks of syndicalists seizing control of social production.

Syndicalists often form alliances with other workers' movements, including socialism, communism, and anarchism."