artel

A group of farmers forms an artel to share their harvest.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A cooperative association: "artel" refers to a voluntary association of workers or peasants in the former Soviet Union who pooled their resources and labor for collective production or economic activities.
   • A collective work group: It denotes a group of individuals who work together, often in agriculture or crafts, sharing tools, profits, and responsibilities.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The villagers formed an artel to cultivate the land collectively. (They created a cooperative group for farming.)
  • In Soviet history, an artel was a common form of labor organization. (A typical collective work arrangement.)
  • The fishermen's artel shared their catch equally among members. (The group distributed resources fairly.)

Advanced Usage

• "Artel" in historical context: The term is primarily used in reference to pre-revolutionary and early Soviet Russia, where artels were a traditional form of cooperative enterprise.

  • The artel system was later replaced by state-run collective farms. (The cooperative model gave way to government-controlled organizations.)

• "Artel" as a precursor to collectives: It is sometimes compared to modern cooperatives or guilds.

  • The artel functioned like a labor union but with shared ownership. (It combined labor pooling with collective asset management.)

Variants and Related Words

• Artelism (n): the principle or practice of organizing work through artels.

  • Artelism was a key feature of the Russian peasant economy. (The cooperative ideology was central to rural life.)

• Artelny (adj): relating to or characteristic of an artel.

  • The artelny spirit promoted mutual aid among workers. (The cooperative ethos encouraged teamwork.)

Synonyms

• Cooperative: an organization owned and operated by its members for mutual benefit.
• Collective: a group of individuals working together for a common purpose, often in agriculture.
• Guild: a medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, similar in structure to an artel.

Phrasal Verbs

• Form an artel: to create a cooperative group.

  • The farmers decided to form an artel to buy machinery together. (They established a collective for shared resources.)

• Join an artel: to become a member of a cooperative.

  • Many laborers joined an artel to secure steady work. (They entered the group for employment stability.)

Related Idioms

• Artel of one's own: a metaphorical expression meaning a self-sufficient cooperative unit.

  • He ran his farm like an artel of his own, sharing tasks with his family. (He managed it collectively within his household.)

• Work in an artel: to collaborate in a group effort.

  • They worked in an artel to complete the harvest quickly. (They labored cooperatively for efficiency.)