Labour movement
Collective bargaining advocacy
The labour movement is the organized effort of workers to improve wages, working conditions, and rights through collective action.
It encompasses trade unions, political parties, and advocacy groups that represent working-class interests.
The movement emerged during industrialization and has shaped laws on minimum wage, workplace safety, and the right to organize.
The labour movement fought for the eight-hour workday.
The spelling with -our is British; Americans write labor movement.
- trade unionWorkers' collective for negotiations
- unionJoining into one
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- general strikeCross-industry work refusal
- picketPointed fence stake
solidarity · workers · collective · bargaining · living wage · protest · wages · rights · factory · organize · rally · march · socialist · dues · scab · walkout · demonstration · industrial
Labour movementbourgeoisie
Capitalist ownership class
capital · management · employers · business interests · corporate power
Labour movementunion busting
Disrupting worker organizing efforts
strikebreaking · right-to-work · at-will employment · open shop · rugged individualism
Labour movementunion busting
Disrupting worker organizing efforts
Thatcherism · neoliberalism · Reaganomics · libertarianism · supply-side economics
labour, labor, laboured, labored, labouring, laboring, laborious, laboriously, labourer