0 an organized group of working people who join together in order to protect their rights and improve their pay and working conditions:
It is not clear, for example, whether the size of the labour movement is more important than party-labour ties in terms of granting policy influence.
It encouraged the labour movement to disrupt the economic activities of the country.
Unity of action within the labour movement thus became one of the principal objectives of anarchist campaigning.
By contrast, reforms that impose severe losses on unions are likely to engender much more vigorous opposition from the labour movement.
As previous studies have argued, the strength of the labour movement also plays an important role in shaping the outcome of reform efforts.
The labour movement paralysed crucial plants and industrial sectors.
As a result, we would expect the labour movement to present more fragmented and less effective resistance to privatisation and trade liberalisation.
The existence of a legalized (but responsible) labour movement and active civic groups would further the latter condition.
