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labourism

labourism noun: support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.

Noun

labourism (countable and uncountable, plural labourisms)

  1. Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
    • These three sociointellectual traditions were Fabianism, ethical socialism, and militant labourism. Their combination eventually developed into the ideology of the British Labour Party, the primary hegemonic force of British socialism […]1997, Edwin A. Roberts, The Anglo-Marxists: A Study in Ideology and Culture, page 24

Forms of labourism

plurallabourisms
alternative formlaborism

Origin of labourism

From labour + -ism.

Questions about labourism

What does labourism mean?
Labourism means support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
What part of speech is labourism?
Labourism is a noun.
What is the plural of labourism?
The plural of labourism is labourisms.

Words near labourism in the dictionary

  1. labourings
  2. labourious
  3. labouriously
  4. labouriousness
  5. Labourish
  6. labourism
  7. labourisms
  8. labourist
  9. labouristic
  10. labourists
  11. labourite

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