I've just discovered the Bourse du Travail and am fascinated by them. I cam here to ask about them and find out how they worked and operated, but a quick search revealed an entire book about them! Fantastic!
I was wondering though, if they still exist today and I am simply ignorant of them, or whether they should exist. Why aren't they being created all over the world? It seems obvious to me that they should exist to provide syndicates with the ability to exchange trade.
The wikipedia article hints vaguely at some sort of death of the bourses:
With government support came government regulation. While there was no legal obligation for the state or the municipality to put in place these buildings, their construction helped both the workers' movement and surveillance of its activities. Business interests and the police saw the formalisation of Bourses du Travail as a way to channel the labor movement away from revolutionary change or to keep an eye on those who promoted it.
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The buildings still exist, but unions converted them to office space some time ago. There was a small outcry about what a bourse du travail should be when illegal immigrants were violently expelled by some CGT members from the Paris Bourse du travail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Iygor82cSg