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In large plants of modern industry unions were negligible. In Germany the strenght of social democracy and its 'Free Trade Uninons' was not to be found in the heavy industries of Rhineland and Ruhr. In the USA unionism in the great industries was virtually eliminated during 1980s, but it survived in small-scale industry and among the craft unions of the building trade, protected by the localism of the market in the large cities, where rapid urbanization, not to mention the politics of graft and municipal contracting, gave it greater scope. The only real alternative to the local union of small knots of organized labour, to the (mainly skilled) craft union, was the occasional and rarely permanent mobilization of masses of workers in intermittent strikes, but this also was mainly local.