Labor's Response 3

Which of the following best describes the process of VERTICAL integration?

• joining together many firms from the same industry
• improving worker productivity through mass-production
• patenting all related technologies across an industry
• taking control of each step in production and distribution

Labor Union that allowed skilled and unskilled workers, black, white, and women was called what?

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

To limit the power of labor unions businesses did which of the following? (choose 4)

• SOMETIMES offered higher wages to discourage unionization
• exploited racial, language and racial divisions among workers
• forced workers to sign yellow dog contracts
• Changing the laws, and influencing the government
• treated workers fairly

What is the primary source of a labor union's negotiating power?

• threatening to strike
• offering arbitration
• boycotting
• sabotaging manufacturers

What was a result of violence at the Haymarket Affair in 1886?

• Scabs lost their jobs, union workers returned
• Anarchists took over control of union and labor leadership.
• U.S. has/would not have a pro labor political party

These are ...

• Tenements
• Brownstone
• Mansion
• Slum

The labor union that only allowed men in a "skilled trade"

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

A woman working in a textile factory would have been allowed in the American Federation of Labor

• True
• False

Which aspects of the Industrial Revolution are present in the picture below?

• Child labor
• Dangerous working conditions
• Low wages
• Universal Free Education

Why were the late-1800s often referred to as the Gilded Age?

• times were prosperous for most working Americans
• Economy did poorly during industrial period.
• industrialists grew wealthy despite political unrest/problems
• people feared the nation would fall apart due to industry