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union movements  

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  • Labor or trade union movements are the quintessential example of the means by which workers under capitalism have collectively created their own independent organizations to represent their interests. Union movements are the aggregation within a nation-state of these individual labor or trade unions, so that we can speak of the union movement in, for example, Britain or the United States or union movements across the world. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Union Movements]

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