Industrialization Vocab

The belief that the government should be "hands off" of business and should not be involved

• Laissez-Faire
• Abolition
• Reform
• Communist 

When workers unite to negotiate better conditions

• Union
• Collective bargaining 
• Strike
• Reform

When organized workers refuse to work in order to win better working conditions

• Collective bargaining
• strike
• union
• reform

When union members and owners negotiate over wages and conditions in order to avoid a work stoppage

• strike
• communism
• collective bargaining 
• union

Skilled-workers

• Workers who are trained in a specific job, receive more pay 
• Workers who get on the job training
• Factory workers who operate complicated machines
• People who own banks 

A large business that sells stock to raise capital (money)

• corporation
• monopoly 
• bank 
• franchise 

When one business controls an entire industry and can drive its competition out of business

• Corporation
• Monopoly 
• Partnership
• Laissez-Faire 

crowded room in which dozens of workers make clothing or other products.

• Sweatshop

• Tenement

• Assembly Line

• Strike

allowed both skilled and unskilled workers as well as women, and African Americans to join their union.

• American Federation of Labor

• Strike

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

• Knights of Labor

set up by Samuel Gompers, only allowed skilled workers to join their

• Knights of Labor

• American Federation of Labor

• Strike

• Mass Production