labor movements
Collective bargaining campaigns
Labor movements are organized efforts by workers to improve their wages, working conditions, and rights through collective action.
The term encompasses trade unions, strikes, and political campaigns for workplace reforms.
A labor movement may be local or span entire industries and nations: The labor movement won the eight-hour workday.
The phrase often refers historically to the rise of organized labor in industrialized countries during the 19th and 20th centuries.
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- strikesRefusals to work collectively
- trade unionsWorker collectives for negotiations
- SocialismPublic ownership ideology
- collective bargainingJoint worker-employer talks
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- laborwork, laborers, workers, hard work, employment
- Puerto RicoSan Juan, Puerto Rico, Carolina, Old San Juan, Arecibo
- ScandinaviaNorway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland
- resistanceresistance, defiance, resistance fighters, civil resistance, resist
- comparative historycolonialism, imperialism, revolutions, modernization, industrialization
- social historyeveryday life, social class, social movements, working class, middle class
labor movementscapital
Wealth used for investment
management · business interests · corporate power · industrialists · bourgeoisie
labor movementsunion busting
Disrupting worker organizing efforts
strikebreaking · management · corporate interests · capital · scabs
labor movementsneoliberalism
Pro-market, anti-regulation ideology
libertarianism · Reaganomics · Thatcherism · supply-side economics · trickle-down economics