• nednobbins@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    I thought credit for both of those usually goes to unions. Which anarchists or groups of anarchists made the most significant contributions to the 40 hour work week or 8 hour days?

    How did a philosophy of minimized government involvement contribute to the regulations and enforcement mechanisms around our labor laws?

    • onoira [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      syndicalism is a tendency of libertarian socialism. it was anarchists engaging in — typically violent — direct action that bred the popular labour movement, women’s suffrage, the abolition of racial segregation, and others.

      How did a philosophy of minimized government involvement contribute to the regulations and enforcement mechanisms around our labor laws?

      … because we live in a society? the State needs labour, but if all the labourers refuse to sell themselves until labour-buyers stop X, then the State may decide very graciously to abolish the practise of X. so the theory of syndicalism goes: rinse and repeat till you have eroded all the power of labour-buyers, and you can seize the workplace and cut out the State.

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      7 months ago

      I… Don’t think you have an idea what anarchism is, so there’s really no point in discussing here until you do