Craft unionism | 職業工會大補帖

Underthisapproach,eachunionisorganizedaccordingtothecraft,orspecificworkfunction,ofitsmembers.Forexample,inthebuildingtrades,allcarpenters ...

Model of trade unionism

Craft unionism refers to a model of trade unionism in which workers are organised based on the particular craft or trade in which they work. It contrasts with industrial unionism, in which all workers in the same industry are organized into the same union, regardless of differences in skill.

Under this approach, each union is organized according to the craft, or specific work function, of its members. For example, in the building trades, all carpenters belong to the carpenters union, the plasterers join the plasterers union, and the painters belong to the painters union. Each craft union has its own administration, its own policies, its own collective bargaining agreements and its own union halls.

The first unions established in Russia in the early nineteenth century tended, by nature of the industries in which their members worked, to be craft unions: shoemakers, cordwainers (shoemakers who work with cordovan leather) and typesetters...