Trade Union Participation and Development of Class-Consciousness

of Class-Consciousness Pravin J Patel This paper attempts to examine the assumption that the trade union is a school of class-consciousness. Two qualifications are added to the original Marxian proposition: (a) that the more active participation in the trade union activities the greater the class-consciousness, and (b) that the leftist/radical ideological orientation of the trade union is likely to generate greater class-consciousness than rightist/reformist ideological orientation.