labor movement
Collective bargaining crusade
The labor movement is the organized effort of workers to improve wages, working conditions, and rights through collective action.
It encompasses trade unions, strikes, and political advocacy dating from the Industrial Revolution.
The term can refer to specific national movements or the broader global phenomenon: The labor movement fought for the eight-hour workday.
Also spelled labour movement in British English.
- workers' rightsLegal protections for employees
- trade unionWorkers' collective for negotiations
- collective bargainingJoint worker-employer talks
- unionJoining into one
- rank and fileOrdinary members collectively
Mother Jones · Cesar Chavez · bread and roses · strike · picket line · Haymarket affair · eight hour day · socialism · Industrial Revolution · picketing · solidarity · scabs · living wage · federation · Samuel Gompers · boycotts · AFL-CIO · union dues
- Depression EraGreat Depression, Hooverville, breadline, dust storms, soup kitchen
- Labor Movementunion organizers, union leaders, trade unionists, union activism, Samuel Gompers
- Victorian IdeasVictorianism, Darwinism, social Darwinism, evolution, natural selection
- 20th CenturyWorld War I aftermath, Cuban Missile Crisis, atomic bomb, New Deal, Nazi Germany
- laborwork, workers, hard work, employment, effort
- NetherlandsAmsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, tulips
labor movementmanagement
Organizing and directing resources
capital · corporate interests · bourgeoisie · union busting · employers
labor movementindividualism
Doctrine of personal independence
at-will employment · meritocracy · right-to-work · rugged individualism · bootstrap mentality
labor movementneoliberalism
Pro-market, anti-regulation ideology
trickle-down economics · Reaganomics · Thatcherism · libertarianism · supply-side economics
labor, moved, movement, motive, laborer, labored, laboring, labour, mover