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Labor movement   /lˈeɪbər mˈuvmənt/   Listen
Labor movement

noun
1.
An organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement.  Synonyms: labor, trade union movement.





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"Labor movement" Quotes from Famous Books



... education among the masses, with the improved communication between people of the same and of different nationalities. It has become particularly indispensable now in the face of communism, socialism, anarchism, and the labor movement generally. Governments feel that it is so, and strengthen the force of their ...
— The Kingdom of God is within you • Leo Tolstoy
... seizures; provocative agents; compelling persons to be witnesses against themselves; propaganda by the Department of Justice. The reader may also ask for the pamphlet entitled "Memorandum Regarding the Persecution of the Radical Labor Movement in the United States;" also for the pamphlet entitled "War Time Prosecution and Mob Violence," dated March, 1919, giving a list of cases which occupies forty pages of closely printed type. Also he might ...
— 100%: The Story of a Patriot • Upton Sinclair


Words linked to "Labor movement" :   trade unionism, trade union, reform movement, IWW, Industrial Workers of the World, union, labor union, unionism, I.W.W., brotherhood, trades union


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