LABOR MOVEMENT

Pronunciation (US):

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does labor movement mean? 

• LABOR MOVEMENT (noun)
  The noun LABOR MOVEMENT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: LABOR MOVEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LABOR MOVEMENT (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

labor; labor movement; trade union movement

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)