workers' movement
Collective employee advocacy
The workers' movement is the collective struggle of laborers for better conditions, fair wages, and political power.
It encompasses labor unions, socialist parties, and various forms of organized resistance to exploitation by employers or the state.
The term often appears in historical contexts: The workers' movement gained momentum in the nineteenth century.
It can refer to specific national struggles or the broader international cause of labor rights.
- Haymarket affair1886 Chicago labor riot
- eight hour dayCommon labor schedule length
- living wageIncome covering necessities
- minimum wageLowest lawful hourly rate
- trade unionWorkers' collective for negotiations
rank and file · proletariat · shop steward · factory floor · Industrial Revolution · capitalism · collective agreement · right to organize · wildcat strike · socialism · solidarity · bread and roses · strike action · anti-discrimination laws · labor rights · paid leave · class struggle · communism
workers' movementcorporate lobbying
Business efforts swaying lawmakers
industrialists · plutocracy · big business · business lobby · business interests
workers' movementstrikebreaking
Undermining organized labor stoppages
union busting · ruling class · Pinkertons · scabs · Pinkerton agents
workers' movementlibertarianism
Minimal-government political philosophy
worker, workers, work, works, worked, working, workable, unworkable, workman