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chapter 6 vocab
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Labor Unions
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an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
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Sweatshops
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places in the tenement buildings where the people lived that worked children and women for low wages and long hours and under poor conditions.
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Collective bargaining
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both sides send representatives to negotiate
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Arbitration
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both sides agree to a neutral judge to solve problem
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Strikes
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refuse to work until demands are met
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Strikebreakers
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person hired to work in a striking worker’s place.
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SCAB
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Scab labor are strike breakers. The crew they bring in to take over when the original workers go on strike.
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injunction
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court order forcing strikers to go back to work.
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Knights of Labor
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was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s
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Craft unionism
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refers to organizing a labor union in a manner that seeks to unify workers in a particular industry along the lines of the particular craft or trade that they work in by class or skill level
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Unskilled and semi-skilled
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Socialism
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gov’t control of business and property + equal distribution of wealth.
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Capitalism
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an economic system in which capital assets are privately owned and goods and services are produced for profit in a market economy
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Radical unionists
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Anarchists
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a political philosophy that advocates stateless societies based on non-hierarchical free associations
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Haymarket Affair
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May 4, 1887, 3,000 people gathered at Chicago’s Haymarket Square to protest police brutality during earlier strikes. The crowd was dispersing when police arrived, someone tossed a bomb into the police line, police fired on workers, 7 police killed and several workers died in the chaos.
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Pullman Strike
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in 1893, Pullman laid off more than 3000 workers and cut wages of the rest of his employees. Workers had little $ to survive. A strike was called. Pullman refused to arbitrate.
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Railroad Strike of 1877
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Pauline Newman
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organized the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union.
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Mother Jones
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Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was an Irish-American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent labor and community organizer. She then helped coordinate major strikes and cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World.
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