# Contested concept: adequate

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- **Contestedness**: criterion
- **Diagnosis**: The disagreement over 'adequacy' masks a conflict between reformist (incremental) and radical (transformative) approaches to technological displacement.
- **Canonical**: `/concept/adequate` (data: `/concept/adequate.json`)

## Senses in use
- **Preparation that effectively mitigates economic harm and preserves existing labor power structures.** — used in 1 claim(s)
- **Preparation that meets the minimum legal or organizational requirements to represent workers.** — used in 1 claim(s)

## Claims using this term
- [Labor unions in the United States as of 2026 are largely restricted to exercising power within isolated industrial sectors [rather than acr…](/claim/claim_145e27e6d4a7.md) _(sense: Preparation that meets the minimum legal or organizational requirements to represent workers.)_
- [Organized labor unions in the United States have not yet adequately addressed or prepared for the scale of the challenge posed by artificia…](/claim/claim_599479ff159a.md) _(sense: Preparation that effectively mitigates economic harm and preserves existing labor power structures.)_