Homework Check 3.4

As industrialism brought more machines into workplaces, jobs became more complex and required more skills.

• True

• False

In the late 1800s, most unions excluded women.

• True

• False

In the late 1800s, large trade unions generally failed, but industrial unions prospered.

• True

• False

In the late 1800s, workers' buying power generally decreased.

• True

• False

Some labor supporters were anarchists, who believed that society did not need any government.

• True

• False

A  __________________  was a technique for breaking a union through which the company refused to allow workers onto their property.

• lockout

• blacklist

• strike

• sit-down

When a union called a strike, employers would often hire replacements, called

• troublemakers.

• strikebreakers.

• blacklists.

• lockouts.

Employers generally viewed unions as

• groups that helped increase productivity.

• organizations that were necessary for protecting workers.

• secret societies planning to overthrow the government.

• conspiracies that interfered with property rights.

The Knights of Labor suffered a steady decline in membership and influence due to lost strikes and

• its refusal to use arbitration.

• the Haymarket Riot.

• its support of Marxism.

• the Homestead Strike.