Definition of Craft union

1. Noun. A labor union whose membership is restricted to workers in a particular craft.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Craft Union

cradleboard
cradleboards
cradled
cradlelike
cradler
cradlers
cradles
cradlesong
cradlesongs
cradling
craft
craft centre
craft centres
craft fair
craft palsy
craft union (current term)
craftable
craftables
crafte
crafted
craftedness
crafter
crafters
craftier
craftiest
craftily
craftiness
craftinesses
crafting
craftless

Literary usage of Craft union

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The I. W. W.: A Study of American Syndicalism by Paul Frederick Brissenden (1919)
"... this antagonism from outside craft unions, and these involuntary internal compromises with the craft-union idea were not the most serious difficulties ..."

2. What's what in the Labor Movement: A Dictionary of Labor Affairs and Labor by Waldo Ralph Browne (1921)
"craft union. One of the two main structural types of trade union—the other being the ... In its simplest and commonest form, the craft union is made up of ..."

3. Report on the Steel Strike of 1919 by Bureau of Industrial Research (1920)
"When a craft union on strike sees brother unions in the same industry sticking to work or even filling the strikers' jobs, that craft union ..."

4. The New Unionism in the Clothing Industry by Jacob M. Budish, George Henry Soule (1920)
"craft union; if it attained recognition and the closed shop, it could rest at its ease. The results accomplished by these methods were in ..."

5. The Militant Proletariat by Austin Lewis (1911)
"The pettiness and cheapness inherent in the craft union disappear in the splendor of the promise which is unfolded to the worker in the program of ..."

6. Industrial Unionism in America by Marion Dutton Savage (1922)
"On the other hand, if the members of a highly skilled craft union cannot be replaced, a very small group may succeed in shutting down the whole ..."

7. What We Want and where We are: Facts Not Phrases by William Archibald Appleton (1922)
"The craft union elects men to its executive who understand the nature and the possibilities of the businesses they have to deal with, and who are usually ..."

8. The I. W. W.: A Study of American Syndicalism by Paul Frederick Brissenden (1919)
"... this antagonism from outside craft unions, and these involuntary internal compromises with the craft-union idea were not the most serious difficulties ..."

9. What's what in the Labor Movement: A Dictionary of Labor Affairs and Labor by Waldo Ralph Browne (1921)
"craft union. One of the two main structural types of trade union—the other being the ... In its simplest and commonest form, the craft union is made up of ..."

10. Report on the Steel Strike of 1919 by Bureau of Industrial Research (1920)
"When a craft union on strike sees brother unions in the same industry sticking to work or even filling the strikers' jobs, that craft union ..."

11. The New Unionism in the Clothing Industry by Jacob M. Budish, George Henry Soule (1920)
"craft union; if it attained recognition and the closed shop, it could rest at its ease. The results accomplished by these methods were in ..."

12. The Militant Proletariat by Austin Lewis (1911)
"The pettiness and cheapness inherent in the craft union disappear in the splendor of the promise which is unfolded to the worker in the program of ..."

13. Industrial Unionism in America by Marion Dutton Savage (1922)
"On the other hand, if the members of a highly skilled craft union cannot be replaced, a very small group may succeed in shutting down the whole ..."

14. What We Want and where We are: Facts Not Phrases by William Archibald Appleton (1922)
"The craft union elects men to its executive who understand the nature and the possibilities of the businesses they have to deal with, and who are usually ..."

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