Importance of the Labor Movement

The birth of motion worker was the birth of the awareness of international class.- Since the 18th century, the West began to observe significant economic changes that would result in profound social and cultural changes.

We can begin by pointing out the importance of Industrial Revolution, an economic phenomenon that unleashed significant transformations in Europe in the mid-18th century, such as the repopulation of cities, the appearance of factories as work spaces, the measurement of time in terms of utility and efficiency, the development of massive work industrial. This situation caused the different regions of the continent that were beginning to industrialize to emerge more and more labor complications for those who were employed in factories and industries: the proletarians.

For the proletarians, who together formed the proletariat, the working conditions were inhumane in most cases and what further complicated the situation was the idea that each and every one of them was expendable because if the conditions were not accepted, there would always be someone else displaced from the countryside where there was no longer work to be found who would accept them. easily. In this way and with the appearance of ideas from philosophers, politicians and even the group of more and more radical workers the notion began to emerge that unity is strength and that therefore the workers should unite to defend their interests.

The notion of internationalism as the central basis of the labor movement

According to what we have been proposing, it was then clear that the different working sectors of Europe began to consider the need for union against the interests of the opposite sector: the capitalists or businessmen.

With the awareness of its reality, class awareness would be born and thus it spread very widely. quickly across the continent the notion that the workers of the whole world should unite as presented more characteristics among themselves than with the powerful sectors of their own country. Thus the labor movement historically was largely opposed to the idea of nationalism What supposes for this trend the division of workers artificially and by division of limits rather than by common characteristics.

Criticism of the labor movement

One of the most important criticisms traditionally made to the labor movement was the division and subdivision that the different theories and tendencies policies generated within the same movement and which meant that depending on the color or political inclination of the sectors there could be confrontations between the same cluster. This is what has generated in a great way that the labor movement and its strength are diluted in party internal without thus being able to become aware of the importance of the whole and of the group of workers to face the powerful.

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