Vocabulary - Lesson 14

American Federation of Labor

• a national labor organization, founded in 1886, that consisted mainly of skilled workers and focused on higher wages and shorter workdays

• negotiations between employers and employees concerning wages, working conditions, and other terms of employment

• a method in which factory production is divided into separate tasks, with one task assigned to each worker

• a violent clash in 1886 between union supporters and Chicago police that divided and weakened the labor movement

working class

• a run-down apartment building

• people who work for wages in factories, mills, mines, and other businesses, usually performing manual labor

• a small factory where employees work long hours under poor conditions for low wages

• a labor action in which workers refuse to go to work

tenement

• a brand new apartment building

• an old factory turned into homes

• a run-down apartment building

• someone who rents a place

a small factory where employees work long hours under poor conditions for low wages

a labor action in which workers refuse to go to work

a political theory that advocates ownership of the means of production, such as factories and farms, by the people rather than by capitalists and landowners

• capitalism

• populism

• socialism

• communism

an 1894 railway workers' strike that was broken by federal troops, weakening the labor movement

• Pullman Strike

• Nullman Strike

• Polemens Strike

• Poolman Strike

labor union

• a method in which factory production is divided into separate tasks, with one task assigned to each worker

• a violent clash in 1886 between union supporters and Chicago police that divided and weakened the labor movement

• an 1892 Carnegie Steel plant workers' strike that was broken by the state militia and resulted in the union being shut out of the plant for four decades

• a group of workers organized to protect the interests of its members

an 1892 Carnegie Steel plant workers' strike that was broken by the state militia and resulted in the union being shut out of the plant for four decades

• Pullman Strike

• Homestead Strike

• Haymarket Affair

• Hollywood Writer's Strike

a violent clash in 1886 between union supporters and Chicago police that divided and weakened the labor movement

• Homestead Strike

• Pullman Strike

• Haymarket Affair

• Child Labor