Trade Unions in the Epoch of Imperialist Decay

This volume collects essays by prominent communist theoretician Leon Trotsky on the role of trade unions in capitalism and its overthrow that were written between 1920 and 1940, as well as a prologue, "Trade Unions: Their Past, Present and Future," written by Karl Marx and adopted by the 1866 congress of the First International Working Men's Association. The essays are organized into two sections, the first of which examines problems of trade union strategy and tactics and consists of essays primarily written in the 1930s and the second of which is primarily concerned with countering anarcho-syndicalist tendencies within the trade union movement and consists of essays primarily written in the decade prior. Each section also includes a preface by Farrell Dobbs, a prominent historical figure of the Socialist Workers Party in the United States. This is a paperbound edition of a work first published in 1969. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)