craft unions

Skilled trade organizations

Craft unions organize workers by trade or skill rather than by industry.

Plumbers, electricians, and carpenters each have their own craft union, regardless of what industry employs them.

This contrasts with industrial unions, which organize all workers at a company or in an industry regardless of occupation.

The building trades are dominated by craft unions.

Opposites

labor relations approach

craft unionsopen shop

Workplace without mandatory union membership

union organizational structure

Groups promoting shared commercial interests

worker solidarity model

craft unionssyndicalism

Union-led worker ownership theory

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