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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unionism
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
trade
▪ Student activity and the resurgence of trade unionism, already discussed, were obvious facets of thus new version of steadfastness.
▪ But his concern for profit margins kept wage levels low and he was intensely suspicious of trade unionism.
▪ And it remains finally to ask what place there was for trade unionism in the Labour Party's revised prospectus.
▪ The reason for the change points again to the essential dilemma trade unionism faced.
▪ His book has interesting passages about the author's boyhood and his later disenchantment with trade unionism.
▪ Did unemployment, economic depression and the General Strike reduce trade unionism to a pitiful weakness?
▪ Their functional link severed, Co-operation and trade unionism went on separately to join the system they could not defeat.
▪ But by the close of the decade militant trade unionism had been literally eradicated in the private sector.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Boal was a successful barrister who combined staunch unionism with a left-of-centre position on social and economic issues.
▪ His autobiography makes it clear that Terence O'Neill had no sympathy with what he saw as parochial unionism.
▪ Mormon religious leaders generally became conservative Republicans who spoke out against trade unionism and welfare programs.
▪ The closed shop and the wildcat strike have undermined the legitimacy of modern trade unionism.
▪ The expansion of white-collar unionism was a particular feature of the most recent phase.
▪ The reason for the change points again to the essential dilemma trade unionism faced.
▪ The survey holds even more dispiriting news for unionism.
▪ Union leaders say he supports the concept of unionism, and rank-and-file workers call him a friend.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unionism

Unionism \Un"ion*ism\, n.

  1. The sentiment of attachment to a federal union, especially to the federal union of the United States.

  2. The principles, or the system, of combination among workmen engaged in the same occupation or trade.

Wiktionary
unionism

n. 1 The support of advocacy of a union, especially of a trade union 2 (context often capitalised English) Support for the North (the Union) during the American Civil War 3 (context often capitalised English) Support for the continuance of the United Kingdom (especially with respect to Northern Ireland)

WordNet
unionism

n. the system or principles and theory of labor unions [syn: trade unionism]

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Democratic orators, and of McClellan himself, in his letter of acceptance, could not prevent the rise of that great tidalwave of Unionism which was soon to engulf the hosts of Copperhead-Democracy.

They may have stimulated the business unionism of the American Federation of Labor as well as the national unity of labor proposed by the Knights of Labor, and the independent labor-farmer parties of the next two decades.

Depression of 1893 that propelled Eugene Debs into a lifetime of action for unionism and socialism.

Through all the defeats, the beatings, the murders, however, it was the beginning of textile mill unionism in the South.

He believes in unionism, consequently, as he believes in nothing else.

American democratic future which may issue from aggressive and unscrupulous unionism consists in the state of mind of which mob-violence is only one expression.

The last and most important step to be taken by the Government, to insure Unionism in the Border States, is to emancipate the slaves of disloyalists in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Industrial unionism recognizes that capitalism is not only interindustrial, so to speak, but also international.

This is the main reason why he was such a passionate advocate of trades unionism.

He was credited with having become the field commander of Quennel's long and bitter fight against unionism, a miniature civil war which had only been ended by congressional legislation.

And when I get back I'm offering a motion to change Hong Kong's status entirely: to embargo everything from and to Communist China, to hold immediate and proper elections here, introduce proper taxes, proper unionism and proper British social justice!