Syndicalism is a political idea from the late 1800s and early 1900s: that workers, through their unions, should own and run the industries they work in — no bosses above them, and in the strongest version, no government running things either. The union is not just a group that argues for better pay; it is meant to become the thing that actually manages the factory, the railway, the mine. Syndicalists usually wanted to get there through direct action by workers themselves — strikes, and above all a general strike where everyone stops work at once — rather than through voting for a party. It is a fairly formal, bookish word. You meet it in history books, in politics classes, and when people talk about labour movements in France, Spain, Italy and Latin America, where it was strongest. Almost nobody uses it about themselves today. You will also see it inside longer names: 'anarcho-syndicalism' is the anarchist version, and be careful, because 'national syndicalism' was used by some fascist movements who borrowed the word and meant something very different. The person is a 'syndicalist', and 'syndicalist' also works as an adjective.

工團主義（主張由工會／工人自己掌握產業）