Example sentences of "worker ' movements " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although all modem workers ' movements have developed strategies comprising both labour market and political components how can we explain within the European context the greater emphasis upon the achievement of radical change in the structure of society by French and Italian unions , whose thrust ( certainly up to the late 1960s ) has been at least as much ideological and political as industrial , in comparison with West German or British unions ? |
| 2 | Since Lenin , Marxists have accepted that this consciousness only arises if it is ‘ injected ’ into workers ' movements by an outside agency , a revolutionary party or intelligentsia . |
| 3 | His view was that the breaking down of large organizations was delayed only by the political power of European governments and workers ' movements . |
| 4 | In Venezuela , the dictatorship of Juán Vicente Gómez attacked all workers ' movements and the Communist party was outlawed from the 1920s until 1945 . |
| 5 | It is here that the importance of social movements becomes apparent , for such movements — whether they are large-scale and enduring , like the trade union movement , or more specific , concerned with particular issues in some historical period , like the unemployed workers ' movements of the 1930s — do not only establish , in some cases , the preconditions for the emergence or transformation of organized political formations , but also constitute an independent form of political commitment and action which is an essential , often highly effective , element in political struggles . |
| 6 | A second stage emerges when the achievement of representative government , universal and equal suffrage , and free elections seems to diminish the importance of political action outside the formal institutional sphere , although in periods of crisis social movements , such as the unemployed workers ' movements or the fascist movements in some European countries , may develop . |
| 7 | They had talked of spontaneous workers ' movements , of activity from below , and suddenly there it was . |