Full Idea
Syndicalism is the view that society should be based on trade unions, as the expression of the working class, but covering both occupations and areas, and in the hands of the rank and file, so as to manage the whole economy.
Gist of Idea
Syndicalism expands worker control through enhanced and widespread trade unions
Source
Nicolas Walter (About Anarchism [1969], p.17)
A Reaction
The dream of the workers running a modern factory looks dubious, because technology is now so sophisticated. It makes sense only where what needs to be done is fairly obvious. I like unions, but they can become very authoritarian.
Book Reference
Walter,Nicolas: 'About Anarchism' [Freedom Press 1977], p.17