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Abbreviation of organizer. Originally, it referred to activists who specialized in organizing and coordinating liaison between branch organizations and union members of different occupations, professions, and regions in industrial unions in Europe and the United States, where individual membership was the rule. Today, it refers more broadly to leaders and organizers in mass movements such as labor unions and class-based political parties. Organizers are generally dispatched directly from higher-level organizations to lower-level leadership organizations when there are problems such as the weakness of the lower-level leadership organizations, and they are responsible for activities such as leading the movement and strengthening the leadership organization, organizing the unorganized masses, and thoroughly disseminating the decisions of higher-level organizations. Organizers who work on a national scale are called national organizers, and those who work in a limited area are called local organizers.

[Kenji Yoshida]

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オルガナイザーorganizerの略。組織者を意味し、元来は、欧米などの個人加盟を原則とする産業別組合において、職種、職業、地域を異にする支部組織や組合員との連絡調整、組織化を専門に行う活動家をさしていた。今日ではより広く、労働組合や階級政党など大衆運動における指導者、組織者をさす。オルグは一般に、下級の指導機関が弱体であるなど問題があった場合に、上部機関から直接当該機関に派遣され、運動の指導および指導組織の強化、未組織大衆の組織化、上部機関決定事項の周知徹底などの活動にあたる。なお、オルグのうち、全国規模で活動にあたる者を全国オルグ、地域を限定して活動にあたる者を地方オルグという。

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