History 10

Scabs

Stirkebreakers hired by employers as replacement workers when unions went on strike

Why did workers form unions?

Workers joined together to form unions to improve work conditions and increase pay, among other issues.

What is the difference between a trade union and an industrial union?

Industrial unionism is a labour union organizing method through which all workers in the same industry are organized into the same union—regardless of skill or trade—thus giving workers in one industry, or in all industries, more leverage in bargaining and in strike situations.

Strike

Nonviolent refusal to continue to work until a problem is resolved.

How did employers and unions treat women differently from men?

Regardless of their employment, women industrial workers in the late 1800s were paid less than men even when they performed the same jobs. Women were also excluded from unions.

What are 3 effects of industrialization on the workplace?

The creation of power machines and factories provided many new job opportunities. The new machinery increased production speed of good and gave people the ability to transport raw materials. Industrialization also lead to urbanization. Urbanization is the movement of people into cities and city building.

What are the 4 factors that led to an increase of unions in the late 1800s?

The industrial sector, organized labor unions fought for better wages, reasonable hours and safer working conditions.

Employers generally viewed unions as

Interfering with property rights

What reasons were given for the differences in which employers and unions treated women?

Women did not have the same rights as men in the 1800s. They did not have the same opportunities to an education, they could not vote, and when they could find work they were paid very little.

Why did industrial unions frequently fail in the late 1800s?

Unions had little success in solving the problems of the workers. Exemplary Answer: In the late 1800s, workers organized unions to solve their problems. Their problems were low wages and unsafe working conditions. First, workers formed local unions in single factories.

Lockouts

a company tool to fight union demands by refusing to allow employees to enter its facilities to work

Industrial Union

an association of all workers in the same industry, regardless of the job each worker performs.