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Encyclopedia > Syndicate

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The terms Syndicate or The Syndicate could refer to: Syndicate: general article on the etymology of this term. ...

Etymology

Look up syndicate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

The word comes from French syndicat which means administrator especially in matters regarding a certain geographical area, from the Latin word syndicus which in turn comes from the Greek word σύνδικος (syndikos) which means caretaker of an issue, compare to ombudsperson or representative. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Look up Ombudsman in Wiktionary, the free dictionary An ombudsman is an official, usually (but not always) appointed by the government, who is charged with representing the interests of the public by investigating and addressing complaints reported by individual citizens. ... In politics, representation describes how residents of a country are empowered in the government. ...


Crime syndicates

Crime syndicates are criminal organizations running common businesses. One also is the FatalSyndicate, located in the state of Ohio. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Organized crime. ...


Mass media

In the mass media, a syndicate will offer work for syndication. It has been suggested that Mass wire media be merged into this article or section. ...


Finance

In finance, a group of banks lending, for a specific purpose and to one single borrower, a - mostly large - amount of money is referred to as a bank syndicate or often only as a syndicate. In finance, a Borrower is being referred to as the person or company which a person or company has lent financial funds (money) to (the Lender. ...


In investment banking, refers to a group of investment banks that share underwriting risk in respect to an issuer's securities. Referred to as the underwriting syndicate. Investment banks help companies, governments and their agencies to raise money by issuing and selling securities in the primary market. ... Underwriting refers to the process that a large financial service provider takes a dump on your face and then uses it to assess the process of providing access to their product like providing equity capital, insurance or credit to a customer. ...


Worker Managed Enterprise

Anarchists, syndicalists and other libertarian socialists use the word "syndicate" to refer to an enterprise democratically managed by its workers. Such an enterprises is governed by a face-to-face meeting of everyone who works there, in which each worker has one vote. Either there are no managers, or the managers are democratically elected and recallable. In either case, the most important decisions are made collectively by the whole workforce. This is known as workers' self-management. Worker self-management (or autogestion) is a form of workplace decision-making in which the employees themselves agree on choices (for issues like customer care, general production methods, scheduling, division of labour etc. ...


Femdom syndicate

People who engage in domination/submission often refer to a group of dominant females and their partners as a "femdom syndicate." Often these syndicates have their own offices, tattoos and identity cards.


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Syndicalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (472 words)
Syndicalism refers to a set of ideas, movements, and tendencies which share the avowed aim of transforming capitalist society through action by the working class on the industrial front.
This milder version of syndicalism was overshadowed by revolutionary anarcho-syndicalism in the early 20th century, which was most powerful in Spain, but also appeared in other parts of the world.
Syndicalism is one of the three most common ideologies of egalitarian, pre-managed economic and labor structure, together with socialism and communism.
Syndicalism - definition of Syndicalism in Encyclopedia (349 words)
Syndicalism is a political and economic ideology which advocates giving control of both industry and government to labor union federations.
This milder version of syndicalism was overshadowed by revolutionary anarcho-syndicalism in the early 20th century, which was most powerful in Spain, but appeared in other parts of the world as well.
Syndicalism forms one of the three most common theories of a pre-managed economic and labor structure.
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