Talk:Labour movement

message: Wondering if we cant just agree to Labour as a Wikipedia standard when referring to any Labour movement topics. Labor can perhaps still be an optional spelling for non-political usage. -Ste|vertigo 00:12, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't think it makes a difference.  People can spell it however they like, since both are intelligible to both Commonwealth and American speakers.  BTW, I added the American spelling in parentheses at the top, since it seemed silly to me to have it as a footnote.  Most other articles put alternative spellings in the first paragraph.  208.61.5.123 01:15, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Labour and labor 

message: Someone needs to finish the last sentence in the History section.  Right now it reads: "An active and free labour movement is considered by many to be an important element in maintaining democracy and for economic."  Economic what?  I would edit it myself but i don't know what word the original author had in mind.  MAH! (talk) 21:06, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last Sentence in History 

message: I consider the Lincoln quote to be taken out of context.  Lincoln goes on to elaborate on the quote and it is clear that he is not referring to "Labor" in the sense of a class, which is the subject of the labor movement, but labor as a physical activity. Lincoln values labor as a stepping stone to independence and then capitalism, not as a permanent class.  His essay continues after a few paragraphs:
"The prudent penniless beginner in the world labors for wages a while saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself then labors on his own account another while and at length hires another new beginner to help him This is the just and generous and prosperous system which opens the way to all gives hope to all and consequent energy and progress and improvement of condition to all No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty none less inclined to take or touch that which they have not honestly earned." 64.81.229.96 (talk) 21:33, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Lincoln Quote 

message: The lead says, "while the goal of labourism was to protect and strengthen the interests of labour within capitalism ...". I wonder if this shows an Anglosaxon point of view. In much of Europe, large parts of the labour movement have been very critical of capitalism. Note that socialism includes social-democracy, which in its pure form aims at reforming the capitalist system by transferring part of the power in the economy from the capitalists (owners of the means of production and there shareholders) to the workers. There has been a considerable entanglement between the labour and socialist movements; many members of those movements will even have regarded the two terms as synonyms. Of course it is necessary to realize that there were (and are) also non-socialist labour organizations, like the catholic trade unions, which means that in many countries there was/is not a single, unified labour movement (making the labour movement a dubious term). Anyway, I think the quoted phrase is a little too articulate about the goal of 'labourism'. Bever (talk) 19:17, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Labour and capitalism 

message: Is 'labourism' a normal term or a neologism? Never heard of it. I am not a native speaker, but still I would like to see some source. Bever (talk) 19:19, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Labourism 

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