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  1. An early 20th-century movement in Britain
  2. whose aim was to organize and control the
  3. industrial life of the country through
  4. self-governing democratic guilds of workers.
  5. Catholic inspired, it was anti-materialistic
  6. and attempted to arrest what it saw as a
  7. spiritual decline in modern civilization. The
  8. National Guilds League was founded in 1915,
  9. and at the movement's height there were over
  10. 20 guilds, but in 1925 the League was
  11. dissolved.
  12.