It has few followers beyond the academic world and a handful of industrial unions.
"The mechanics have always been a minority in these industrial unions," he said.
That was really the birth of the industrial unions.
But most of the union's units throughout the country became industrial unions.
Members of the industrial union educate themselves to operate industry according to democratic principles, and without the current hierarchical ownership/management structure.
There was an effort to establish a new industrial union to take the place of the railroad brotherhoods.
The industrial unions would be the embryonic form of future post-capitalist production.
The federation's failure to make an endorsement reflected a split between labor's industrial and service unions.
The United Mine Workers had been formed as an industrial union.
The industrial union and civil rights movements of this century are replete with examples.
