Business Management-Final Exam 2019

An organization of workers dedicated to protecting members' interests and improving wages, hours and working conditions for all.

• Labor Union

• Workers Rights

• Worker Strikes

• Collective Bargaining

The negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees

• Labor Unions

• Workers Rights

• Worker Strikes

• Collective Bargaining

The ____________ movement led efforts to stop child labor, give health benefits and provide aid to workers who were injured or retired

• collective

• labor

• strike

• union

Union membership and power peaked around ___________

• 1940

• 1950

• 1960

• 1970

The earliest recorded strike occurred in 1768 when New York journeymen tailors protested a wage reduction.

• True

• False

Facing 12-hour work days and wage cuts resulting from the depressed economy, factory workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company walked out in protest. The strike ended when President Grover Cleveland sent federal troops to Chicago on July 6, 1894.

• The Pullman Strike

• Great Anthracite Coal Strike

• Great Southwest Railroad Strike

• Steel Strike of 1919

Following World War I, United States Steel Corporation workers represented by the American Federation of Labor organized a strike against poor working conditions, long hours, low wages and corporate harassment regarding union involvement. This resulted in the strikes failure and ensured an absence of union organization in the steel industry for the next 15 years.

• Great Southwest Railroad Strike

• Great Anthracite Coal Strike

• The Pullman Strike

• Steel Strike of 1919

What was the first permanent labor union; it used strikes as a tactic?

• American Federation of Labor
• Labor Goals
• International Workers of the World
• Knights of Columbus

The leader of the union known as  the American Federation of Labor

• Samuel Gompers
• Terrence Powderly
• John P. Morgan
• Henry Bessemer

How did industrialization in the US change the lives of women & children? 

• Women & children gained higher social status. 
• Women & children became better educated. 
• Women & children became wage earners for their families.