This very brief study must be considered as the first draft of a work on the origin of anarcho-syndicalism that deserves to be explored in greater depth : more precisely on the origin of the term “anarcho-syndicalism” and its derivatives, on the one hand, and on the origin of the movement on the other hand, for the word and the fact don’t coincide chronologically. There are several theses on this question. I have therefore made a research, which is very modest, and which does not claim to be exhaustive, but which will perhaps provide some leads for further work.

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