labourism

British  

/ ˈleɪbəˌrɪzəm /

noun

1. the dominance of the working classes

2. a political, social, or economic system that favours such dominance

3. support for workers' rights

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Example Sentences

With them went the culture of Labourism: the bolshy union stewards, the self-organised societies, most of the local newspapers.

From The Guardian

To the extent that it has an ideology it is a vague blend of nationalism and labourism, expressed in the PJ’s founding “three banners” of political sovereignty, economic independence and social justice.

From Economist

So there was this funny convergence: we were writing about that, and the way that British Labourism produced a politics dedicated to inequalities, at the same time as Hobsbawm delivered The Forward March of Labour Halted?

From The Guardian

But while he conspicuously had little to say about the reasons for high corporate and household debt – the fact that financialised debt was structural to the growth model launched under Thatcher – he claimed that years of tax-and-spend Labourism had driven the structural deficit to a high of 7% in 2008.

From The Guardian

More important, they seem immune to hermetic ideologies: Bolshevism, Labourism, Islamism, the myths and legends around constitutional Irish nationalism.

From The Guardian