Organization with the goal of improving working conditions

An economic system in which production and the means of production are owned and controlled by private individuals

Political and economic theory where the means of productions owned by society, not by private individuals.

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

Risk-taker who combines natural and capital resources to create a product; business owner

institutions that produce and distribute goods, such as railroads, farms and factories.

parts that can be used in place of one another in the production of goods

Materials in nature which are used to produce a good or make money

The growth of cities

Political and economic theory where the means of production owned by the government

When laborers refuse to work

Run-down, overcrowded apartments

a member of the working class

When land in Great Britain is fenced off, forcing a mass movement of people into cities looking for work

Goods are made by hand in homes

Goods are mass produced in factories by machines