Industrial Revolution Vocab

When working conditions are bad, workers can threaten to go on ___________, meaning they refuse to work unless conditions improve.

• Holiday

• Strike

• Vacation

• X-games mode

License to make, sell or use inventions....

• vulcanization

• famine

• patent

• mass production

• urbanization

A factory system in which a product is created by a series of workers adding a separate piece of the product until the product is completed

• Enterprise

• Socialism

• Assembly Line

• Strike

A level of material comfort as measured by the goods, services, and luxuries available to an individual, group, or nation.

• Standard of living

• Social welfare

• Means of production

Movement of population from farms to cities....

• vulcanization

• famine

• patent

• tenement

• urbanization

Agriculture

• factory work

• farming

• the time period before 1700

• where workers craft goods in their own homes

Medicare, Social Security, and Unemployment are all examples of these types of government programs

• Urbanization

• Natural resources

• Social welfare

Socialism

• fencing-in by landowners of formerly common lands

• the growth of cities

• an economic system in which a land, resources, and companies are owned by the state

• beginning in the late 1700s, a period in which mechanical power replaced muscle power for the production of goods

Assembly line

• machines and workers that build a product by passing work from one station to the next

• an industrial system of manufacturing in which workers, raw materials, and machinery are gathered under the same roof

• complete control by one company of the production and/or the supply of a good

• an organization that brings together workers to fight for better wages and working conditions

Lack of food....

• vulcanization

• famine

• patent

• tenement

• urbanization