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form are confined to apprentice-served skilled workers and are intended to protect and promote a marketable skill. (Sometimes occupational unions, which are not confined to apprentice-served workers, are seen as a form of craft union.) By contrast, industrial unions cover all workers within a particular industry and general unions are completely inclusive in terms of their recruitment, representing a large number of different industries and occupations. Technology is a major explanation for the establishment of these various types of union. The early experience of industrialisation (prior to mechanisation) in both Britain and the USA and the emergence of skill patterns associated with it saw the rise and consolidation of craft unions. Because of the early onset of modern economic development in these two countries workers' experience with industrial capitalism was slower and the transition period longer than was the case in most of Northern and Central Europe . As a consequence, forms of craft unions, with an attendant focus on occupational solidarity and ideas of job consciousness, became well entrenched over many decades. Complications were, however,