OPBPL | Working Paper 6
| 2015/04/28
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Abstract
We can define the unionism as a social association of employees who want to protect their interests, fighting for better pay and working conditions, which emerges from the harsh conditions imposed by capitalism during the industrial revolution.
In Europe, there are advances in the labor associations with the dissemination of the principles of socialism. The Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels (published in 1848) had intended to raise awareness among workers that they should fight against the capitalism “workers of the world unite!” . Its purpose was to go beyond the work conditions, the intentions was introduce a social movement that would lead to the conquest of power by the workers.
