labor movement

Questions about labor movement

What does labor movement mean?

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

What is another word for labor movement?

Close synonyms include trade union movement, labor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is labor movement a common word?

labor movement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.