Labor and Employment Flashcard

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What is the system of employment where a worker sells their labor to an employer in exchange for wages?

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Wage Labor

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Which term describes farming that does not provide much return to the farmer, primarily for their own consumption?

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Subsistence Farming

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What is the term for people who work for wages in factories, mills, mines, and other businesses, usually performing manual labor?

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Working Class

Front

What is a small factory where employees work long hours under poor conditions for low wages called?

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Sweatshop

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What is the practice of using children as manual laborers, often under hazardous conditions?

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Child Labor

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What term describes the growth of cities as people move from rural areas to urban centers in search of work and better living conditions?

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Urbanization

Front

What are run-down, often overcrowded, and unsanitary areas of a city, typically inhabited by the poor, called?

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Slums

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What are heavily populated, often dilapidated apartment buildings in urban areas that housed migrant workers and the poor in dangerous and unsanitary conditions called?

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Tenements

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What are organizations that bring together workers in the same trade or job to fight for better wages, working conditions, and other labor rights?

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Labor Unions

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What is a form of protest in which workers refuse to work in order to demand better wages, working conditions, or other benefits?

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Strike