NOUN
- an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
How To Use labor movement In A Sentence
- Everything converged on the labor movement, which proved the real crucible wherein the struggle was to be decided. Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America
- There is no section of the official labor movement that upholds the most elementary principles of working class solidarity.
- Though diminished, the labor movement has played a key role in creating a new progressive political opposition.
- There is no section of the official labor movement that upholds the most elementary principles of working class solidarity.
- The labor movement's political clout is waning with most red states having right to work laws that effectively ban unions.
- Despite the threat workfare poses to public-sector unions, Williams says the labor movement has been sluggish in responding to the issue.
- Reaganism" implies a deeply anti-democratic opposition to the welfare state, the labor movement, and indeed to any and all forms of public provision that empower the people, as distinct from economic elites. Andrew Levine: Two Reaganite Presidents: Bill Clinton and Barack Obama
- What's more important right now for the embattled labor movement, politics or organizing?
- Sadly, over a century later, the blood-soaked gains made by America's labor movement are being relentlessly eroded by stealthy corporations and pliant politicians. Mark Cassello: Labor and Capital in the 21st Century: Legacy of the Haymarket Affair
- Thus, the great civil rights movement of the 1950s and early 1960s developed independently of the labor movement.
