WordNet
n. an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action especially via labor unions (especially the leaders of this movement) [syn: trade union movement, labor]
Usage examples of "labor movement".
In the 1920's, when the labor movement in France and Germany was far more dominant than in the United States, the standard of living of the American worker was greatly superior.
With the labor movement organizing itself to go into politics and the unions feeling their oats, industrial giants like this Company are threatened from all sides.
In this way a solid-core labor movement was founded which in 1947 stood ready to confront The Fort and fight to the rugged, island-breaking end.
The speaker was a former member of the co-operative labor movement, Kostoied-Amursky, who had once been a Social Revolutionary.
For one thing, the labor movement got organized for once and made an issue of it.
If Townsend were to get his hands on the Citizen as well, the Labor movement would be left without a voice in this country.