Definition of Labor movement

1. Noun. An organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Labor Movement

lablabs
labmate
labmates
labneh
labor
labor-intensive
labor agreement
labor camp
labor camps
labor coach
labor contract
labor force
labor leader
labor market
labor markets
labor movement (current term)
labor organizer
labor pain
labor pains
labor pool
labor resources
labor union
labor unions
laborant
laboratorian
laboratories
laboratory
laboratory animal science
laboratory bench

Literary usage of Labor movement

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Economic Influences Upon Educational Progress in the United States, 1820 by Frank Tracy Carlton (1908)
"hands with the new-born labor movement. These two dissimilar forces united in aiding in the educational advance toward tax-supported schools. ..."

2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1896)
"... AND THE labor movement. BY GRAHAM TAYLOR, WARDEN CHICAGO COMMONS. When the debt of English learning to English labor was recognized by Arnold Toynbee, ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"CHINA'S NEW labor movement BY RODNEY GILBERT Prom the North China Herald. April 29 (SHANGHAI BRITISH WEEKLY) WE had a parade in Canton to-day as long as a ..."

4. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1901)
"... questions of reform, and with 1825 the labor movement began. Less hours of labor, higher wages, better treatment, payment in honest money and not in ..."

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