| Library / English Dictionary |
LABOR MOVEMENT
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
Synonyms:
labor; labor movement; trade union movement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("labor movement" is a kind of...):
reform movement (a movement intended to bring about social and humanitarian reforms)
Meronyms (parts of "labor movement"):
brotherhood; labor union; trade union; trades union; union (an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "labor movement"):
I.W.W.; Industrial Workers of the World; IWW (a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War I)
trade unionism; unionism (the system or principles and theory of labor unions)
