Definition of Trade union 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 Trade Union Movement

trade newspapers
trade paperback
trade policy
trade protection
trade rat
trade route
trade school
trade secret
trade secrets
trade show
trade shows
trade stoppage
trade surplus
trade surpluses
trade union
trade union movement (current term)
trade unionism
trade unionist
trade unionists
trade unions
trade up
trade war
trade wind
trade winds
tradeable
tradecraft
tradecrafts
traded
traded in
tradeful

Literary usage of Trade union movement

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

1. The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa[: Forced Consensus? by Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Michael Osita Ogbu, Ha-Joon Chang (2004)
"The trade union movement The civil society (trade unions, the press and NGOs) ... In fact the trade union movement shared the views of left wing political ..."

2. Socialism in Theory and Practice by Morris Hillquit (1909)
"The trade union movement In their efforts to secure radical and lasting industrial reform, and we may add, in their expectations of the ultimate realization ..."

3. A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1920)
"... even among the two or three hundred thousand of them who are joined together in Professional Associations—to correspond with the trade union movement. ..."

4. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Through the General Council the trade union movement maintains organic relations with the Government and Government Departments, and with a large number of ..."

5. Women's Wages: A Study of the Wages of Industrial Women and Measures by Emilie Josephine Hutchinson (1919)
"... trade-union movement, which is held to be a sounder method of raising wages. Trade-unionists themselves are divided on this point. ..."

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