The term is most widely used in the United States, where it was popularized in the decade prior to World War I by Eugene V. Debs's Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World.
這個詞在美國最廣泛的被使用，在美國在第一次界大戰之前的十年，這個詞被尤金·德布斯的美國社會黨和世界產業工人公會普遍流傳。