Industrial Union, labor union composed of all the workers in a given industry, regardless of Crafts Union, of skilled tradespeople sharing comparable trade skillsskill, craft, or occupation.
Craft unionism refers to an approach to union organizing that seeks to unify workers in a particular industry along lines of the particular craft of trade that they work in. it contrasts with...
Craft unions were made up of workers who were skilled in a specific trade. Many craft unions were organized in the 1790s, such as the Philadelphia shoemakers in 1792, the Boston carpenters in 1793,...
Beginning in 1827, laborers who worked in the same industry, regardless of their specific job, formed industrial unions, such as the United Steel Workers and the Teamsters.