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Early Trades Union International Organisations

In: The Political Role of International Trades Unions

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  • Gary K. Busch

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Even as national centres were growing in the late 1880s, craft unionists attending the meetings of the first and second internationals discovered that there were issues of mutual concern which they shared with fellow craft unionists from foreign nations. Across Europe, employers were introducing new techniques of production, new systems of work assignment and new methods of compensation. These craft unionists first began to meet informally at these larger union gatherings to discuss their union’s response to the new challenges. Then they began to create international information clearinghouses to disseminate their shared information to other unions within the same craft. These new organis­ations were called International Trades Secretariats (or ITSs for short). Each major craft developed its own ITS. By the beginning of the First World War there were thirty-three of these international trades secretariates in operation.

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  • Gary K. Busch, 1983. "Early Trades Union International Organisations," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Political Role of International Trades Unions, chapter 2, pages 15-30, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-05579-1_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05579-1_3
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