Strike action: Difference between revisions

<blockquote>''by its numbers, this class has become the most powerful in England, and woe betide the wealthy Englishmen when it becomes conscious of this fact ... The English proletarian is only just becoming aware of his power, and the fruits of this awareness were the disturbances of last summer.''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/camatte/origin.htm|title=Camatte: Origin and Function of the Party Form|website=www.marxists.org}}</ref></blockquote>

 

As the 19th century progressed, strikes became a fixture of industrial relations across the industrialized world, as workers organized themselves to [[collective bargaining|collectively bargain]] for better wages and standards with their employers. [[Karl Marx]] has condemned the theory of [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]] criminalizing strike action in his work ''[[The Poverty of Philosophy]]''.<ref>[[The Poverty of Philosophy]], Part II, Section 5</ref>