Industrial action

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Organisations Federación Obrera Regional Argentina Solidaridad Obrera Industrial Workers of the World Brazilian Workers Confederation Confederación Nacional del Trabajo Industrial Syndicalist Education League Syndicalist League of North America International Socialist League Norsk Syndikalistisk Forbund International Workers' Association National Libertarian Federation of Trade Unions Freie Arbeiterinnen- und Arbeiter-Union Confederación General del Trabajo Solidaridad Obrera Solidarity Federation Konfederatsiya Revolyutsionnikh Anarkho-Sindikalistov National Labor Secretariat
Leaders Daniel De Leon Victor Griffuelhes Hubert Lagardelle Juan García Oliver Rudolf Rocker Georges Sorel Fernand Pelloutier James Thompson Bain Mary Fitzgerald
Related subjects Criticism of capitalism Infoanarchism Post-capitalism Criticism of copyright Libertarian socialism Criticism of wage labour Labour power Revisionism Copyleft Fascism Socialism Communism
Syndicalism Labour economics

Industrial action (Europe, India, South Africa and Australia) or job action (Canada and US) refers collectively to any measure taken by trade unions or other organised labour meant to reduce productivity in a workplace. Quite often it is used and interpreted as a euphemism for strike or mass strike, but the scope is much wider. Industrial action may take place in the context of a labour dispute or may be meant to effect political or social change. Specifically industrial action may include one or more of the following:

• Strike
• Occupation of factories
• Work-to-rule
• General strike (mass strike)
• Slowdown (or Go-slow)
• Overtime ban
• Blue flu

See also

• Nonviolent resistance
• Civil resistance

Syndicalism
Precursors	Guild socialism Utopian socialism Revolutions of 1848 Orthodox Marxism
Variants	Anarcho-syndicalism Green syndicalism Syndical Communism National syndicalism Revolutionary syndicalism Yellow syndicalism
Economics	Co-operative economics Labour economics Labour rights General strike Workers' self-management Labour unionisation Mutual aid
Organisations	Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) International Workers' Association (IWA-AIT) and affiliates: Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT-AIT, Spain) Federação Operária do Rio Grande do Sul – Confederação Operária Brasileira (FORGS-COB-AIT, Brazil) Federación Obrera Regional Argentina (FORA-AIT, Argentina) Associação Internacional dos Trabalhadores - Secção Portuguesa (AIT-SP, Portugal) Anarho-sindikalistička inicijativa (ASI-MUR, Serbia) Freie Arbeiterinnen- und Arbeiter-Union (FAU, Germany) Konfederatsiya Revolyutsionnikh Anarkho-Sindikalistov (KRAS-IWA, Russia) Mreža anarhosindikalista i anarhosindikalistkinja (MASA, Croatia) Norsk Syndikalistisk Forbund (NSF-IAA, Norway) Priama Akcia (PA-IWA, Slovakia) Solidarity Federation (SF-IWA, Britain)
Leaders	Daniel De Leon Victor Griffuelhes Hubert Lagardelle Juan García Oliver Rudolf Rocker Georges Sorel Fernand Pelloutier
Related subjects	Criticism of capitalism Post-capitalism Libertarian socialism Criticism of wage labour Labour power Revisionism
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