Test Review: Organized Labor

Why were strikes not as effective in industries with unskilled workers?

• Unskilled workers were paid high wages.
• Unskilled workers could be replaced more easily than skilled workers.
• Unskilled workers were not allowed to join unions.
• Many unskilled workers were deported for supporting unions.

What does AFL stand for?

• American Fun Labor
• American Finance of Labor
• American Freedom of Labor
• American Federation of Labor

Who did the AFL represent?

• trade and craft (skilled) workers
• business owners
• government workers
• teachers

_______ is when workers refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet their demands.

• labor unions
• party
• strike
• sweatshop

What was the main cause of the Pullman Strike?

• Cut wages 
• Pullman wouldn't tell the workers the Wifi password
• Raised rent prices
• Pullman wouldn't pay for electricity in worker's homes

_{Most strikes by unions in the late 1800's were unsuccessful mainly because}

• unions were unconstitutional
• strikes had never been used before to settle labor issues
• government supported business instead of workers
• strikers failed to use militant tactics

In which of the following places did 146 female workers die in a fire?

• Carnegie Steels Homestead Plant
• the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
• Haymarket Square
• the Pullman factory

Formation of national labor unions in the late 1800's was mainly because of

• passage of laws that supported workers
• laws restricting immigration
• poor working conditions and low wages
• economic depression that led to high unemployment

The Homestead Strike was a protest 

• in Colorado demanding safer working conditions. 
• Chicago demanding an eight-hour workday.
• against the Pullman Palace Car Company’s unsafe working conditions
• against the Carnegie Steel Company’s plan to cut jobs.

Collective bargaining is the 

• practice used by employers to hire groups of laborers.
• practice used by employers to get the cheapest labor possible.
• idea that laborers working in groups are more productive in the workplace.
• idea that laborers acting together have greater success in negotiating with management.