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Market Trend

Rise of the Internet Coupled With the Rising Era of E-Commerce

Market Drivers

Launch of a Series of Movies That Are Part of a Single Franchise

Increasing Demand for Children's Merchandise

Opportunities

Emergence of 3D Printing

Increasing Number of Entertainment Programs and Children's TV Channels

Restraints

· Short Life of Merchandise

Competitive Analysis: Leading companies are focusing on innovation in production technology to improve efficiency and shelf life to overcome COVID19 Outbreak Impact. The best long-term growth opportunities in this sector can be captured by ensuring financial flexibility to invest in continuous process improvement and optimal strategies. Company profile sections such as Some of the key players are Hasbro (United States),Mattel (United States),Ravensburger (Germany),TOMY (Japan),JAKKS Pacific (United States),Lansay France (France),LeapFrog Enterprises (United States),MGA Entertainment (United States),Playmates Toys (Hong Kong),Vivid Imaginations (United Kingdom) market locations, historical background and market information (including market cap / sales and contact information) And other basic information. Each player / manufacturer revenue figure, growth rate, and gross margin are provided in an easy-to-understand table format over the past five years and are provided as separate sections for recent developments such as mergers, acquisitions, or launch of new products / services. Research objectives:

· Post COVID Analysis on growth & market size (growth potential, opportunities, drivers, industry-specific challenges and risks).

· To study and analyze the Global Animation Collectibles Market size by key regions/countries, product type and application, history data from 2020 to 2026, and forecast to 2026.

· To understand the structure of Animation Collectibles Market by identifying its various sub segments.

· Focuses on the key Global Animation Collectibles Market players, to define, describe and analyze the value, market share, market competition landscape, SWOT analysis and development plans in next few years.

· To analyze the Animation Collectibles Market with respect to individual growth trends, future prospects, and their contribution to the total market.

· To analyze competitive developments such as expansions, agreements, new product launches and acquisitions in the market to better understand Pre and Post COVID scenario.

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Region Included are: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Oceania, South America, Middle East & Africa

Country Level Break-Up: United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, South Africa, Nigeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Germany, United Kingdom (UK), the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Turkey, Russia, France, Poland, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, India, Australia and New Zealand etc. Research Parameter/ Research Methodology Primary Research: Key sources are industry professionals in the Global Animation Collectibles industry, including management organizations, processing organizations, and analytics service providers that manage the value chain of industry organizations. As survey are restricted due to lockdown worldwide, out team of Analyst are collecting and certifying qualitative and quantitative information through extensive primary research process via LinkedIn, Email communication, Survey Monkey and Industry forum to acquire relevant information from industry experts such as CEOs, vice presidents, directors, technology and innovation experts, founders and key executives from several of the industry's leading Global Animation Collectibles companies and organizations. Secondary Research: Secondary research studies critical information about the industrial value chain, core pool of people, and applications. We also helped market segmentation and key information with the help of Annual reports, press releases, analyst & conference call transcripts.

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Chapter 1: Introduction, market driving force product Objective of Study and Research Scope the Animation Collectibles market

Chapter 2: Exclusive Summary – the basic information of the Animation Collectibles Market.

Chapter 3: Impact on Market Dynamics- Drivers, Trends and Challenges & Opportunities of the Animation Collectibles; Post COVID Scenario

Chapter 4: Presenting the Animation Collectibles Market Factor Analysis, Post COVID Impact Analysis, Porters Five Forces, Supply/Value Chain, PESTEL analysis, Market Entropy, Patent/Trademark Analysis.

Chapter 5: Displaying the by Type, End User and Region/Country 2015-2020

Chapter 6: Evaluating the leading manufacturers of the Animation Collectibles market which consists of its Competitive Landscape, Peer Group Analysis, BCG Matrix & Company Profile

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Summaries of my interns (Preen, CARVEN IN ICICLE, PAPER LONDON IN DFO SHOWROOM)

PREEN BY THRONTON BREGAZZI

INTRODUCTION

Preen is a designer brand which was found in 1996 by Justin Thronton and Thea Bregazzi. The dark romantic and effortless designs added the concept of comparing masculine with feminine, what made them different from the other designer brands. The vintage and punkish elements were shown in the whole collections. Since 2001, the Spring Summer London Fashion Show, it started to be known widely and popular. There are also some supporting from celebrities, such as Kate Bosworth, Beyonce, and Rihanna.

MY ROLE AND POSITION

I was doing my placement in Preen, as a creative studio intern which was supporting for the design department, from 2nd. Jan. 2019 - 3rd. Apr. 2019. Sometimes I might help the marketing department, and sales department in the showroom. Unfortunately, I did not get very clear about how the company running through the whole collection. It is because interns are not allowed to get in touch with some deeper information about the company, because of the confidentiality agreement. but I do know more about what is running through during a collection.

WHAT DID I DO DURING MY PLACEMENT?

Pattern cutting, and learning how to match the prints on the actual design while cutting the fabric

Recording and arranging the fabric in stock

Copying the last collection’s pattern designs and tailoring, for designers and pattern cutter to redesign

Doing toiles from last and current collections for designers, so that they could doing some changes

Learning the ways of cutting different types of fabrics

Purchasing some fabrics (for sampling) and accessories

Arranging the pattern pieces for current and past collections

Do some trimming samples, as inspirations for designers

Supporting the backstage of Walk Show for Preen, during the London Fashion Week

Supporting the marketing department and sales department to set up the showroom for Preen and help consumers to choose their favor garments in the showroom

CREATIVE THINKING

Some techniques of gathering, plugging and draping could be used for my future design, as textures and details.

The draping could be widely used while I am doing my pattern cutting in the future.

The way of matching prints of the design could be applied, if I am going to do some prints designs in my collections.

During the showroom, I have learnt the way to display the collections.

CARVEN IN ICICLE

INTRODUCTION

ICICLE is a Chinese ethic brand which is found in 1997, they promote premium quality with simple tailor. It is also a company which covered brand operation, product development, manufacturing, retailing, and franchising. Usually they start their collection from manufacturing until selling. The high-class lifestyle for urbanite is what ICICLE are mainly promoted. So the high quality natural material and practicability are what they are focusing on.

CARVEN is a luxury french brand, and be found in 1945. Madam Carven created the brand CARVEN by her love in art and travel. They have their own special style, but acceptable for the whole world. It might be because of Madam’ Carven’ height, she prefers to design colthes for shorter girls/lady, especially for eastern ladies. Hence, in her works, a balance of multi-culture was formed in an international style.The mainly concept of the brand is elegance, quality, and easy-counter. However, CARVEN filed for bankruptcy protection in 2018, and it was brought by ICICLE in Autumn 2018. The first collection that CARVEN published after they were brought is the one which is promoted in 2019, CARVEN X ICICLE SS20.

MY ROLE AND POSITION

The internship was started on the 13th of May 2019, and finished on the 23th of August 2019. I was working in the CARVEN Merchandising Department in Shanghai. So I was supporting my Merchandiser during the time, such as doing some researches in the markets. Sometimes, I might helped CARVEN design department and ICICLE department, as CARVEN was just brought by ICICLE, the design team might not have enough people, in Shanghai, to work through the whole programme. I have also supported the sell-in meeting, and base-at meeting. During the time, the relations of design and marketing was learnt, such as what the marketing team could support the design team. Similarly, I could not take lots of photos of my works and I did not know much deeper about the company, because of the confidentiality agreement.

WHAT DID I DO DURING MY PLACEMENT?

Helping the design team yo upload their technical drawing to their systems.

Researching some pictures as inspirations for designers

Helping them to record the information of their accessories, such as shoes and belts, and then doing the translations

Helping photographer to take photos of garments

Recording and collecting the information of our competitors’ products, such as silhouettes, prices, and materials, for the merchandiser, so that she could provide enough information and ideals of design for designers

Supporting merchandiser to introduce the new collections in details, and then training the buyers

Translating the promotion and the introduction of the new collection

Supporting the sell-in meeting and base-at meeting

CREATIVE THINKING

From the marketing research, I could know what type of garments, fabric, and silhouettes were suitable and popular in the present season. So I could design for consumer for what they need. It is not just for designing but also for selling.

Started to know more about the products and learning more knowledge about fabrics, technique.

The way of introducing the products and collections could be applied on mine, so my consumers could know and understand my designs. Sometimes it could encourage consumers to purchase, because they understood and trusted my products.

Getting notices of choosing fabric, it might limit the design.

The way of taking photos of garments could be applied on the future design, so that I could shown what the special points of my works.

PAPER LONDON, IN THE SHOWROOM OF DFO INTERNATIONAL SHOWROOM

INTRODUCTION

DFO International Showroom is a fashion management and marketing development company in China. It was found in 2010. They supply some sell-in meeting and showroom for foreign and domestic designer brands in China. They also support some celebrities to borrow some garments from different brands, so these celebrities could take photos, and attend variety shows or some formal shows. The showrooms what they offered for brands are usually held during Shanghai Fashion Week.

PAPER London is a British designer brand, and be famous of their unique brand concept and luxe in simple tailor looks.Their designs were usually combined the contemporary art and classic silhouettes, that is what made them special. The dry, cool and simple feminine looks are mainly promoted. Their inspirations comes from the modern architecture, collocates with bright and cheerful colours, in steric structure silhouettes. Since the 1st walk show they have done in AW2015 Berlin Fashion week, the brand PAPER started to be famous among the fashion world. Their design owned the British Fashion Councils Contemporary Award, and be mentioned in VOGUE, Harpers Bazaar. There are also some celebrities worn by, like Jennifer Lopez, and Taylor Swift.

MY ROLE AND POSITION

I was supporting as a brand assistant of PAPER London in DFO showroom, during the Shanghai Fashion Week. It is started from 8th of October 2019,and finished on the 17th of October 2019. So basically I was helping the brand manager to promote the brand PAPER to consumers and help them to make orders from DFO, which means DFO was working as a middleman. After the showroom, I should give a sale summaries of PAPER. Our brand manager could track the orders and making further steps, such as payment and shipping. However, I was not allowed to get in touch with some deeper information about the company and taking the photos of my tasks, because of the confidentiality agreement.

WHAT DID I DO DURING MY PLACEMENT?

Introducing the brand and collection to consumers, and some medias

Helping consumers to make order during the sell-in meeting in the showroom

Recording the consumers’ information, such as the place where they come from, and name of their stores

Summarizing and making forms of the orders

CREATIVE THINKING

From these consumers, there would be a generally understanding of Chinese market. The place where these consumers come from, the price range they could accept, and the styles they might prefer could be influence my future design. So I could acknowledge and target my consumer group more accurately.

The way of communication among consumers were learnt. Different people might prefer different ways of communicating, so they could understand the brand and product.

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How To Get A Business Loan – Generally, people need a loan to start a business. And want to know which type of documents required applying for a business loan.

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Have We Learned Nothing? – A Sixers Column

Bitch, whine, moan.

Sob, fret, complain.

Gripe, grumble, cry.

That’s what I heard from MANY – not ALL – but MANY Sixers fans on Saturday night, the entirety of Sunday, and also Monday morning when I reluctantly opened Twitter.

I’m willing to bet that the loudest complainers were anti-Process types who just came back to the bandwagon this year, set unrealistic expectations for a squad featuring a rookie point guard, second-year center, and second-year power forward, then went off the deep end spitting nonsense after a team with zero playoff experience failed to meet the outrageous goals that THEY THEMSELVES set.

Take a breather.

The Sixers are down 3-0 to a better team with a better coach as of May 7th, 2018. Ben Simmons, Joel Embiid, and Brett Brown have disappointed under the brightest glow of the still-nascent spotlight. There’s no disputing that. I think everyone is in agreement that the coach and the two stars have underwhelmed, though I’d also extend that to Dario Saric and Robert Covington and a number of the veterans who have actually been here before. Nobody is blameless.

Does that mean that the players suck and the coach should be fired and the general manager should resign? No, of course not. It means that the more experienced team with the more experienced players (minus future superstar Jayson Tatum) simply took round one in what will inevitably become the Eastern Conference’s premier rivalry over the next half-decade.

That’s it. That’s the explanation. That is William of Ockham’s razor.

Yet here we are, doing what Philadelphia always does, and proclaiming the franchise dead and buried and flattened to the point of no return.

“They’ve been EXPOSED!” is a local favorite.

Can we please stop using that word? He got “exposed.” She got “exposed.” We say it as if coaches and players and executives can never evolve or learn or adapt, as if once a flaw is exploited, it always remains.

There are a million examples of people who were once “exposed” but figured it out and turned it around. Doug Pederson and Nick Foles come to mind. How about LeBron James? Jared Goff? 2004 Drew Brees vs. 2003 Drew Brees? Even Sergio Garcia won The Masters.

Of course the counterpoint to that is Byron Maxwell, so I’ll give you that one, but let’s continue with the Eagles theme.

These knee-jerk, “fire everyone” types are the same fans who became so irrationally flustered when the Eagles hit the wall after starting 3-0 with a rookie quarterback and first-year head coach. That pair, Pederson and Carson Wentz, won the franchise its first Super Bowl the very next season. Same thing with the cross-section of fans who complained about Earl Thomas vs. Brandon Graham for YEARS. “Why did we draft THIS GUY when we should have drafted THAT GUY!” Blah blah blahhhhhhhhh! Well, the guy you loved to hate just secured the Lombardi trophy. Jason Kelce basically wrote this column for me when he highlighted every criticism of a championship squad.

Have we learned nothing?

It’s obvious that we as a group of media, fans, and Philly people in general lack the simple ability to evaluate recent history and apply it to likewise scenarios. It’s like a provincial version of “Batman Begins,” where instead of pouring that hallucinogen into the Gotham water supply, the villain instead creates a drug that forces all Philadelphia sports fans to grow up with advanced-stage nearsightedness.

Here’s the thing; the best trait of the Philadelphia sports fan – unconditional support and emotional attachment – is also the worst trait of the Philadelphia sports fan, because it results in a recurring and collective lack of critical thinking and temperance.

I said at the beginning of the season that I felt like 2017-18 was a developmental bridge. This was the campaign that was supposed to connect the end of “Process” era to the beginning of the competitive era. The goals were to establish Ben Simmons, Joel Embiid, and Markelle Fultz as cornerstone players, qualify for the postseason, and get that crucial April and May experience under your belt. They hit all but one of those goals (Fultz).

A final and related goal, in my opinion, was to head into this offseason with a full understanding of what you currently have and what you are also lacking, which I’d have to label as incomplete because of Fultz debacle. If Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid are known quantities now carrying crucial regular and postseason experience, then Fultz is still sitting on the basketball tarmac and waiting for takeoff.

I think one of the problems is what I mentioned earlier, the fact that people who are just returning to the Sixers are expecting immediate success. The contrast is that the Sam Hinkie/Process supporters are extra-patient by default, so it creates a large disparity, or maybe a wider spectrum I would say, that separates each respective end of the Sixers’ fan base. Lost and forsaken in the expansive middle is the calm and rational fan who says, “you know what, I’m disappointed right now, but they’ve taken a lot of steps forward this year.”

The Sixers have talked about adjusting expectations this year, the idea that their goals changed as they figured out that they were better than advertised. First it was playoffs, then it was home court, then it was 50 wins. I appreciated that from a competitive standpoint but didn’t find it to be healthy in regard to practicality. I’ll go to the grave believing that expectations must be set at the beginning of the season and can’t be placed on a sliding scale, because progress is best documented in larger chunks that incorporate a more robust sample size or body of work.

Look at the treasure trove of information Bryan Colangelo and Brett Brown now have, RE: what’s wrong and what needs to be fixed. This ass kicking is so valuable to the Sixers because it puts their glaring weaknesses on display for everyone to see. If they didn’t know it before, they now understand exactly what teams are going to do to slow them down and bottle up Ben Simmons. They know that they need players who can create their own shot on offense. They know what Embiid has to do to improve his low post game. There’s data and film on turnovers, rebounds, transition opportunities, dribble hand-offs, horns, SLOBs, and every play imaginable.

They’ve got the entire summer to figure out.

If Bryan Colangelo blows the offseason, or you see a lack of improvement next year, then you absolutely start thinking about the head coach and the strategy that’s currently in place. As far as I’m concerned, this was year number one for the coach and year number two for the GM, and the latter has much more on his shoulders than the former.

All of that said, this season was a wild success. You’ve got two young superstars, a couple of key supplemental pieces, and a road map for the future. To say otherwise is total horse shit, no matter whether you were pro-process, anti-process, somewhere between ambivalent and apathetic.

We all just need to be a bit more like Andy Reid. We need to “do a better job” of taking the erudite long view and suppressing our hereditary knee-jerk myopia, because it’s utterly rudimentary and pointless and makes us look like jabronies.

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Liberty Tax Franchise

Liberty Tax, Inc.-- Who are they and What do they provide

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There are many benefits of franchising rather than business owners forming a start-up organisation. As a brand-new franchisee, you can prevent the mistakes of novice business owners make since the franchisor has currently refined everyday operations through experimentation.

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Interviews with the franchisor

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Abstract

Labor (or trade) unions, formed by workers who join forces to oppose exploitation on the job—whether in factories or fields—use the power of collective bargaining to achieve certain employment and working rights and entitlements that relate to fair pay, safe working conditions, and general worker welfare.

Outline

Introduction

Labor Unions in Europe

Labor Unions in the United States

Labor Unions in Latin America, Africa, Asia

Conclusion

Bibliography

Introduction

The first labor unions were formed by working men and women in the mills, workshops, and small factories of late-eighteenth-century England to protect themselves against low wages, long hours, and poor working conditions. In part, growing out of Europe’s medieval craft guilds, which provided social and material benefits for their members, early unions of weavers, bricklayers, and cordwainers (shoemakers) established models and methods of labor organization that were adopted and further refined as industrialization spurred a dramatic increase in wage-earning labor in the nineteenth century. Over the next century, labor unions in Europe and the United States would expand beyond manufacturing to include miners and agrarian workers throughout those and other areas of the world. Today, tens of millions of men and women—albeit still a minority of all workers internationally— are organized into labor unions.

At least in part, the development of labor unions was linked and in response to the growth of industrial society and the rise of capitalism as an economic system. Beginning in the late 1400s, a centuries-long demographic shift from the countryside to cities took place that saw tens of millions of peasants and subsistence farmers in Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas forced off their land to become indentured servants, tenant farmers, or agrarian workers. Meanwhile, millions of men, women, and children—increasingly from western and central Africa—were enslaved. As commerce expanded and the number and size of existing cities grew, so did the number of men, women, and children brought into the paid workforce.

Simultaneously, movements for political and economic reform in the nineteenth century would help abolish slavery in the Atlantic world and then later in the Indian Ocean world. As with slavery, serfdom and other forms of quasi-forced and forced labor were made illegal throughout most of the world by the twentieth century. With agriculture becoming increasingly mechanized in the early twentieth century, the ranks of urban labor swelled. Unable to compete against large-scale agricultural production, growing numbers of small land-owning rural workers joined those whose lands had been stripped from them by force or insurmountable debt and migrated to cities seeking work.

Under the employ of shop owners who sought to maximize their profits by depressing wages, urban workers—both skilled and unskilled—helped grow both international production and the global market by transforming raw materials such as cotton, sugarcane, copper, and lumber that had been harvested, mined, or felled by rural workers and slaves into consumer goods, construction materials, and finished luxury items. Workers banded together, calling for higher wages and better working conditions; eventually they demanded insurance against illness, accidents, and work-related disabilities—benefits offered by mutual aid societies often tied to religious bodies or fraternal organizations. Labor unions would therefore contain elements of both early craft guilds and mutual aid societies.

Differing substantially in their ideologies, tactics, and degrees of influence, labor unions have assumed a variety of forms over the past two centuries. Some have called for a reorganization of society based on cooperative work, while others have sought only the material improvement of their members. While the demands of labor unions have changed over time, depending on local circumstances, their basic purpose remains the same: protecting the interests of their members by means of collective bargaining. In time, unions would also engage in political action and in some cases, militant action. Along with the right to organize, today’s unions largely seek contractual agreements with employers that guarantee workers specific wages, safe working conditions, and the right to arbitration, health care, and retirement benefits. On the whole, union members in most industrialized countries enjoy more rights, higher wages, and better working conditions than their counterparts in the less industrialized parts of the world, whose governments have yet to either enact into law or enforce standards that relatively more privileged workers have come to take for granted.

Irrespective of location, the bargaining power of labor unions ultimately rests on their members’ ability to collectively withhold their work and to exercise their organization’s financial, legal, and electoral voting strength. Since the late eighteenth century, workers have exerted their power by carrying out, or threatening to carry out, strikes, boycotts of goods, hold demonstrations, picket lines, petition governments, file class-action law suits, mobilize voters, fund political parties or electoral campaigns, and, in some cases, engage in armed struggle. Labor unions have also served as sources for community support and development, providing public forums as well as private spaces for social gatherings, educating their members, disseminating news, and training new leadership.

The appeal of union membership for workers, whether guided by self-interest or a sense of responsibility to their fellow workers and society at large, has been countered by employers threatening to fire or punish employees who join a union, or using physical violence or legal measures—backed by state force—to keep unions from growing in strength. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, courts in the United States frequently issued injunctions to halt strikes. In Peru, private industries have hired armed guards to attack striking workers—a practice seen in many parts of the world. at certain periods in South Africa, as elsewhere, labor leaders have been imprisoned for mobilizing workers.

Labor Unions in Europe

Europe’s labor unions have gained a number of lasting concessions since the nineteenth century, making the continent’s workforce among the most privileged in the world today. Still, every gain made by these workers— from the right to organize, to paid maternity leave—came as the result of protracted labor struggle. During the second half of the nineteenth century, and only after engaging in decades of boycotts, strikes, work slowdowns, and physical violence, European labor unions secured minimal legal protections. In France, the bourgeoisie-dominated revolutionary government of the late eighteenth century enacted the Le Chapelier law to make workers’ coalitions illegal, while Britain’s parliament reinforced existing laws against organized workers through the Combination Acts of 1799 and 1800. Nevertheless, by the 1820s recognizable European labor movements had emerged, accompanying the growing importance of coal production (over steam) and the concentration of large urban populations.

In 1868, Napoleon III, who had used the military to quell striking workers, finally assented to the formation of labor associations. Fourteen years later, France’s Third Republic fully legalized unions. In turn, Britain’s Parliament legalized labor unions in 1871; four years later they granted British workers the right to picket. Workers in Germany were extended the right to organize unions with relatively less struggle than their British and French counterparts, but not until the 1890s. Over the course of the nineteenth century, tens of thousands of workers were killed or seriously injured, whether on the job, because of hazardous working conditions, or in the course of labor agitation. Thousands more were beaten or imprisoned for union organizing and making demands by stopping or temporarily interrupting production.

The politicization of labor unions in the mid-nineteenth century produced incendiary results— most notably, the revolutions of 1848. Such ferment, whether in the factories or fields of Europe, served as the backdrop for later reforms that attempted to appease workers, even as governments and private enterprise shored up their forces to repress dissent. Despite legal and illegal measures to thwart European labor movements, union-led revolts continued.

One of the most dramatic instances of organized European workers asserting their political power took place in 1871, when French workers, together with anarchists, socialists, and communists, temporarily formed their own revolutionary government, the Paris Commune. In the spring of that year, workers seized control of the capital and quickly enacted a series of laws establishing debt relief and shorter working days. While the Communards, as they were called, were defeated within two months by loyalist French and Prussian military forces, their brief takeover served as a reminder of the power of organized labor. As increasing numbers of adult male workers gained the franchise in the latter half of the nineteenth century, organized labor across Europe began to exercise greater influence in determining which candidates and parties best served their interests.

By the end of the nineteenth century, efforts to organize unions extended to the unskilled labor force. Industrial labor unions comprising workers across entire industries regardless of skill (as opposed to trade unions that had been restricted to skilled workers) were formed. As expected, industrial unions, like trade unions, were met with bitter opposition from employers and the state. In the decade preceding World War I, Europe saw a rash of strikes as labor unions fought to keep wages in line with rising inflation; strikes could last for months, entailing extraordinary hardship for working-class communities.

Despite the many obstacles, labor unions in Europe continued to grow. By 1910, approximately three million workers were organized in Britain; two million in Germany; and one million in France. Still, the vast majority of workers in Europe remained unorganized. As the century wore on, industrialization steadily supplanted other forms of production and the labor force came to be dominated by industrial workers; as citizens and soldiers, many also bore the brunt of World Wars I and II. The first of these wars witnessed the birth of Soviet Communism, and with it a “workers’ state” (deformed under Joseph Stalin). The second saw the defeat of European and Japanese fascism.

With the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Russia’s trade unions were incorporated into the structure of government. Meanwhile, socialist countries in Europe, including those in Scandinavia, had been transformed into constitutional monarchies that instituted sweeping social and economic reforms. As the Soviet Union extended its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, trade unionism came to dominate the region.

During the 1930s, and at the other end of the political spectrum, the fascist government of Italy attempted to contain its labor movements by sponsoring its own trade unions. In 1933, Germany’s fascist regime destroyed what had been Europe’s best organized trade union movement, and then attempted to bring its entire labor force under the control of the Nazi party. But following the defeat of fascism in World War II, and their “corporate” attempts to control labor, those countries’ union movements were revived.

By the second half of the twentieth century, many of the demands made by industrial and trade unions in Europe had been translated into government policy, benefiting the broader population—beyond organized workers. The adoption of universal health care programs was among the most important of government reforms enacted under pressure from labor unions in Europe.

Labor Unions in the United States

Organized labor in the United States succeeded in gaining a number of critical concessions: a minimum wage, reduced working hours, child labor laws, disability insurance, and retirement benefits. But the incalculable social, political, and economic impact of slavery in the United States (which produced material surpluses for the accelerated growth of capitalism internationally), combined with large-scale European immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, led to multiple fractures within the skilled and unskilled labor force. Workers were divided, and often pitted against one another, on the basis of race, ethnicity, and gender.

The first labor unions in the United States appeared in the early nineteenth century, growing directly out of the established guilds—blacksmiths, carpenters, cabinetmakers, and cobblers. By the 1820s, various trade unions were calling for the reduction of the work day from twelve to ten hours. As the use of steam engines along the Atlantic seaboard and internal waterways gave rise to new factory systems, paralleling the development of factories in England, labor unions in the United States sought to join together in citywide federations. In 1866 these federations formed the nationwide National Labor Union (NLU), which succeeded in persuading Congress to pass an eight-hour workday for federal workers. But by the early 1870s the NLU had unraveled.

Labor agitation resurfaced with unprecedented force later in the decade. In 1877, a national railroad strike paralyzed the nation’s transportation system when workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia began a strike that quickly spread to St. Louis and Chicago, to Baltimore and New York, eventually reaching Pittsburgh, where discontent over reduced wages had originated. In several places workers resorted to violence, destroying railway lines to protest low wages and ill treatment. The national strike, known as “The Great Railroad Strike of 1877,” attracted widespread public sympathy and was only suppressed through the force of state militias.

Over the following decade, the Knights of Labor, a union formed by Philadelphia garment cutters in 1869, became labor’s preeminent organization. Expanding nationally under the leadership of Terrence V. Powderly, the Knights organized skilled and unskilled workers, men and women, blacks and whites. By 1886, the organization boasted a diverse membership of 750,000, which included urban and rural workers, although the southern branch had increasingly become all-black as southern white laborers refused to participate in interracial locals. The all-black membership soon joined the ranks of other African American workers in the Cooperative Workers of America and the Colored Farmers Alliance, whose combined membership grew to over one million strong, forming the largest movement of black agrarian workers and sharecroppers in U.S. history. In the coming years many within the organized rural black labor movement— Black Populism—joined white farmers and laborers to establish the People’s Party, which advocated on behalf of labor and agrarian interests.

In the 1880s, as the Knights of Labor became a national force demanding an eight-hour workday, both its leaders and the rank and file were targeted for retribution. On 4 May 1886, the Knights held a mass rally to protest police brutality: the day before, striking employees at the McCormick Harvester Company had been severely beaten; one was killed during a clash with the police. Following the mass rally, eight anarchists were accused of throwing a bomb that killed seven policemen, while the police were accused of indiscriminately shooting into the crowd, beating up dozens of workers, and killing four in the process. The incident became known as the Haymarket Massacre, for which the Knights were unjustly blamed. A precipitous decline in the union’s northern, and mostly white membership followed soon thereafter.

The year 1886 also saw the formation of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), led by Samuel Gompers, a cigar roller. The AFL would soon assume the preeminent position that had been occupied by the Knights of Labor. Unlike the Knights, however, which organized across industries, the AFL concentrated on organizing craft unions of highly skilled workers. Opposed to any alliances with radical political parties, Gompers emphasized economic rather than broad ideological goals. Under his stewardship, the AFL ushered in the modern era of organized labor, maintaining emergency funds to help members during strikes, and employing paid organizers to sign up members in nonunion shops. But the exclusive posture of the AFL precipitated a serious rift within the U.S. labor movement, its ranks swelling with immigrant and mostly unskilled workers. In the long run, the organization’s decision to focus on the economic interests of the nation’s most skilled workers—a decision fueled by racism and growing anti-immigrant sentiment—debilitated the potential for a unified labor union movement.

Other labor unions competed with the AFL for membership. In 1894 the American Railroad Union under the leadership of Eugene V. Debs, a leading socialist, organized a strike at the Pullman manufacturing plant near Chicago and called for a boycott by the men who handled the company’s sleeping cars for the nation’s railroads. Within a week, over 125,000 railroad workers across the nation went on a sympathy strike. At the request of the Illinois governor, the U.S. president Grover Cleveland intervened, moving in federal troops to break the strike. Under the threat of military intervention and a broad injunction, the sympathy strike was ended. The Pullman strikers were defeated, many of whom were blacklisted for their involvement.

The opening of the new century witnessed a flurry of strikes. In 1902, coal miners in northeastern Pennsylvania called for a strike. Under the leadership of John L. Lewis, their union, the United Mine Workers (UMW), mobilized some 100,000 coal miners who shut down the coal mines in which they worked. When the owners of the mines turned down a UMW proposal for arbitration, President Theodore Roosevelt, like his predecessor, intervened. This time the president appointed a commission for mediation and arbitration. Five months later, the commission awarded the workers a 10 percent increase in wages and a shortened workday. But it denied the union’s demand for formal recognition, which was a precondition for arbitration; in its absence, workers faced loss of wages, and maybe even starvation.

It sometimes took an industrial catastrophe to spur the enactment of workplace safety regulations. In 1908, twenty thousand women garment workers in New York and Philadelphia walked off their jobs to protest harsh working conditions. But it was only after 146 young female workers died when a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company on New York’s Lower East Side in 1911 that the government finally acted to remedy hazardous working conditions in New York factories. Many of the women at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company had plunged to their deaths, forced to jump out of windows when the fire broke out because the owners had insisted on keeping the doors of the building locked from the outside to prevent “loss of goods.” An outraged public helped pave the way for the enactment of industrial safety reforms, beginning with the targeting of sweatshop conditions in the garment industry.

Favorable public sentiment played an important role in the growth of labor unions. In 1912, the Industrial Workers of the World, a militant multiracial union, led a strike of fifty thousand workers in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. When striking women and their children were attacked by police, a large public protest ensued; the textile workers’ pay was eventually restored and then increased. An important victory for the broader U.S. labor movement was won two years after the Lawrence strike when Congress passed the Clayton Act, which legalized strikes, boycotts, and peaceful picketing. Referred to as the “Magna Carta” for labor, the Clayton Act also limited the use of injunctions to halt strike actions. But another generation would pass before unions were fully recognized.

During the Great Depression, when labor agitation reached new heights, the federal government finally conceded the right of unions to legal recognition. Such labor agitation included pressure by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, whose membership was predominantly Jewish and Italian immigrants. Pressure also came from A. Philip Randolph’s black-led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Beyond government recognition, other important demands gained during the 1930s by labor unions were the long-fought-for minimum wage, the reduction of working hours, child labor laws, and welfare programs. The rising tide of labor union agitation in that decade culminated in the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), which brought millions of unskilled workers from the rubber, steel, and other basic industries under a single umbrella.

In 1935, Congress passed the Social Security Act and the Wagner Labor Relations Act, which created the National Labor Relations Board. While labor unions thereby gained increased power, the federal government’s concessions set the stage for the cooptation of the movement and its leadership under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.

The advent of World War II saw an increase in union organizing, which was accompanied by a deepening alliance of organized labor and the Democratic Party. The abandonment of the U.S. labor movement’s political independence (through the support of prolabor third parties in the electoral arena), ostensibly to unify the country in the face of fascist forces overseas, left the movement vulnerable to attacks once the war was over. Upon the conclusion of the war a purge of left-wing union leaders took place, led by Senator Joseph McCarthy. The era saw the enactment of the Taft- Hartley Act, which made “closed shops” (where only union members were permitted to work) illegal and outlawed the secondary boycott (whereby union members draw the sympathy of others to boycott the goods of a given company). The legislation also allowed the states to pass right-to-work laws, thereby placing further obstacles in the way of union organizing.

With radical leadership effectively barred from union movement, the AFL and CIO merged in 1955. One consequence was a threefold increase in weekly earnings for workers in manufacturing by 1970; less positive, however, was the severing of the low-wage secondary labor market from organized labor. Union organizing has never extended beyond one-third of the U.S. labor force; as a result the most highly skilled workers have come to benefit from the advantages of organized labor, while the distance between them and other workers continues to grow.

Labor Unions in Latin America, Africa, Asia

Like their counterparts in the most industrialized regions of the world—Australasia, Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan—skilled urban workers in Latin America, Africa, and certain areas of Asia have made significant gains over rural and unskilled workers. The most important of the union labor movements on these continents were affiliated with communist or socialist-led political forces, most notably the People’s Republic of China, founded in 1949.

The Chinese Communist revolution, like its predecessor in the Soviet Union, attempted to place agrarian production under state control and to bring about large-scale industrialization over a much shorter period of time than the Western capitalist countries had experienced. Social, political, and economic advancements notwithstanding, for significant segments of China’s population, the accelerated pace of industrialization produced significant social disruption, uneven development, and a reworking of power relations that left hundreds of millions of peasants, previously under the authority of overlords, now subservient to local party officials who were inclined to practice the same kinds of oppressive behavior exhibited by the landed gentry they replaced.

In Latin America, working-class political parties worked closely with the unions to support their labor movements. In the first decade of the twentieth century Argentina’s anarchists assumed leadership in union organizations, promoting anti-government policies that provoked the government to become increasingly repressive of organized labor. Labor leaders were deported and waves of general strikes were met with state-sanctioned violence. To undercut radicalism and build support for their regimes among the growing indigenous and mestizo work force, governments throughout Latin America enacted legislation to provide at least a minimum level of social welfare for its citizens. This approach was carried out first in Uruguay at the turn of the twentieth century, followed by Mexico in the 1920s, and Brazil in the 1930s. Many labor unions in Latin America went underground while working to support pro-labor political parties and their candidates—as was the case in Bolivia with the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario, a party closely tied to the miner’s federation. Today, a minority of workers in Latin America, concentrated in its major cities, are organized into labor unions.

The economies of many African nations continue to rely on subsistence farming, with relatively little industrialization. A continent rich in minerals, the mining industry is among Africa’s principal sources of industrial labor; it is also the industry with the most viable unions. Following independence from European colonialism, many industries on the continent were placed under state control. But many industries also remained under de facto European corporate control or majority ownership. In 1973, however, a wave of strikes in Durban, South Africa, marked a new militancy among African labor unions not seen since the formation of the anarchist-led Industrial Workers of Africa, the first union of black workers in South Africa. The union influenced the African National Congress in a more radical direction, which led, ultimately, to the overthrow of the apartheid regime in 1994. Over the course of the second half of the twentieth century, legislation was passed in South Africa to regularize industrial action, giving new legitimacy to union organizing. Despite such legislation, and coupled with the end of apartheid, like workers in the more industrialized regions of the world, most of South Africa’s labor force remains unorganized.

As in the case of South Africa, a militant workers’ movement in Egypt helped to undermine British colonial presence as well as Egypt’s monarchy. Between 1947 and 1953, a rapid growth in the textile, tobacco, and sugar industries saw the doubling of Egyptian union membership. The International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions, founded in 1956, would, in turn, shape the Egyptian government’s commitment to organized labor in the Arabic-speaking region while integrating the nation’s active trade unions into the state system.

Conclusion

A history of labor union movements suggests certain common threads as much as it illuminates the diversity of organized labor around the world. While most workers have not been organized into labor unions (in the U.S. only about 15 percent of workers are currently organized; down from 30 percent during the 1950s), and while there is now a greater disparity in wealth within nations around the world than had existed at the beginning of the nineteenth century, certain segments of the international labor force have won legal rights that offer them some protection against the exploitative tendencies and practices of industrial capitalism.

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