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Paper · Semantic Scholar

W.H. Hutt’s Analysis of Nazi Economics: “The Economic Strength of Dictatorships” (1939) and “Economic Lessons from the German Offensive” (1940)

This paper reproduces and contextualizes two unpublished lectures by the South African economist W.H. Hutt from 1939 and 1940 in which Hutt analyzes the economic policy of Nazi Germany. Hutt argued that the Nazis’ early success in the war was attributable to their policy of eliminating anti-competitive restrictions on production by labor unions and capitalists. He believed that this provided a model for the Allies t…

picked 11 Aug 2026

Reference · Wikidata

labor union

organization of workers with common goals

picked 14 Aug 2026

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Trade union

A trade union or labor union, often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions and safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing the status of employees, and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

picked 13 Aug 2026

Book · DOAB

Can Unions Survive?

"Defines the challenges facing the movement and offers comprehensive prescriptions for its successful transformation." The George Washington Law Review A valuable analysis of the rise, fall, and--hopefully the revival of unionism in America. [The book] distills into readable form a mass of legal and empirical analysis of what has been happening in the workplaces of the United States and other industrial democracies…

picked 13 Aug 2026

Full text · Open Library

The unionsThe unions
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picked 13 Aug 2026
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