The pro-male elements in the early Union Movement and conscripts who disobeyed their officers in WWI?

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What are your thoughts on those? From what I read on Wikipedia, way even before the feminist movement existed abolition of gender roles had its own associated political groups.

But it often started early on in the form of tendencies the union movement since the male workforce was larger in the early 20th century or 19th century.

Male gender roles were used as a tool of control to force men to accept low pay, shortened life spans, bad and dangerous work conditions. The Union movement recognised this and told men to strike for higher pay, higher taxes on the rich, safer and better work conditions. They essentially fought against the notion of ‘male disposability’ in an early way. Sometimes the unity was so effective that they ‘crippled the whole economy’ until demands were met.

Sometimes the status quo used mercenaries or military and police forces in an attempt to suppress them. So as a result some strikes became insurrections in certain cases.

It might have even played a role in cases where male conscripts united together and disobeyed their officers in World War 1. Pro-Male tendencies could also have had an impact on the 1917 revolution in forces that took part other than necessarily the Bolsheviks.

Neoliberalism can be analysed as being anti-male since it attempts to roll back all those gains and enforce these new gender roles of ‘compete against one another, don’t cooperate’.