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Industrialization and Workers
Industrialization and Workers
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Labor union focused on skilled labor.
Congress of Industrial Organizations
American Federation of Labor
Knights of Labor
Industrial Workers of the World
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Fatigue, faulty equipment and poor training resulted in?
Accidents
A happy place to work
Frequent fires
Protests
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"Only by the power of organization can...their rights to life and liberty ... be recognized
Eugene V Debs
Terrence Powderely
Jimmy Hoffa
Samuel Gompers
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Persons most likely to take work in a sweatshop.
migrants from the south
immigrants
People moving back east
aliens
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What method, as shown in this video, was used by some employers to speed production?
Intimidation
Division of labor
Piece work
Speed up the line
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How did companies try to stop unions?
Yellow dog contracts.
Forbid union meetings.
Refusing to bargain collectively.
Firing union organizers.
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What caused the "Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
Firing Terrence Powderly.
Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.
Increased threat of accidents because of double headers.
Wage cuts.
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Early union organizing all workers: men, women, skilled, unskilled regardless of race.
Teamsters
AF of L
Pinkertons
Knights of Labor
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Why did companies dislike and fear unions?
Unions were anarchists
Unions were communists.
They would have to pay more.
They would be less competitive.
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What reason did many families give for disagreeing with child labor laws?
Had too many chhildren
The kids were well insured and expendable
They didn't like their children
They needed the money
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What are considered the great strikes?
Haymarket explosion
Pullman
Homestead
Sitdown
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Economic & political system favoring public instead of private control.
Communism
Socialism
Capitalism
Oligarchy
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Fredrick Winslow Taylor devised methods to _________ _________ called __________ __________ .
Improve productivity
time and motion studies
Taylorism
Scientific management
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What is another name for the International Industrial Workers of the World
IWW
Wobblies
Teamsters
AFofL
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Who was the leader of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen?
Terrence Powderly
Walter Reuther
Eugene Debs
Samuel gompers
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Type of work where a person is paid by the number of unit they produce in a day.
Drugery
Division of Labor
Sadism
Piecework
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Person who crosses a picket line.
Bruise
Booger
Hemotoma
scab
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Factory workers were ruled by?
The clock
The boss
The sun
The economy
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What practice involving minors came under attack in the early 1900's?
8 hour day
indentured servitude
child labor
10 hour day
