Labor Vocabulary

men and women who signed a contract by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years often in exchange for transportation to the New World and/or other benefits.

• Indentured Servitude

• Slavery

• Contract Employee

• Worker

any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property. A slave is unable to withdraw unilaterally from such an arrangement and works without remuneration.

• Indentured Servitude

• Slavery

• Contract Employee

• Worker

the science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock; farming.

• Agriculture

• Rural

• Urban

• Plantation

relating to the country or country life.

• Agriculture

• Rural

• Urban

• Plantation

relating to a city or town.

• Agriculture

• Rural

• Urban

• Plantation

a usually large estate in a tropical or subtropical region that is cultivated by unskilled or semiskilled (usually slave) labor under central direction.

• Agriculture

• Rural

• Urban

• Plantation

withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.

• Boycott

• Strike

• Coal

• Automation

refuse to work as a form of organized protest, typically in an attempt to obtain a particular concession or concessions from their employer.

• Boycott

• Strike

• Coal

• Automation

the most abundant fossil fuel on Earth, is used predominantly for producing heat energy. 

• Boycott

• Strike

• Coal

• Automation

the application of machines to tasks once performed by human beings or, increasingly, to tasks that would otherwise be impossible. 

• Boycott

• Strike

• Coal

• Automation