MGT Chp 3

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By the end of the 1940s, the CIO unions were becoming centralized. What followed this movement?

A shift from community based to workplaced based unionism

After the organizing drives of the committee for industrial organization resulted in viable unions, it formally became the

Congress of industrial Organizations

What was the result of the UAW strike at GM during the Great strike wave of 1945-46

GM did not open its financial books

one of the most violent ex of the struggle that revolved around employers efforts to weaken the AFL desired level of workplace control was the BLANK in 1892 at the steel mill owned by Andrew Carnegie in PA

Homestead strike

What were the functions of AFL

It acted as a support organization for the independent labor unions It resolved jurisdictional disputes when multiple unions wanted to represent the same group of workers

Which of the following events is associated with the haymarket tragedy, which was the most famous event associated with the knights of labor

Numerous strikes occurred in 1886 to support the may 1 deadline, est by the forerunner of the AFL as the effective date for the 8 hour work day

The most controversial attribute of welfare capitalism, then and now, was the attempt to

Provide employee voice or industrial democracy via employee representation program or company unions

Which of the following shows the condition of the US by 1933 after the stock market crashed on Oct. 24, 1929

The gross national product reduced by 29%

Which of the following contributed to the demise of the Industrial workers of the world

The hostility of employers and the AFL unions The events that were part of World War I

Which of the following events is directly associated with the recognition of the steel workers organizing committee

The memorial day massacre

Which of the following was clearly revealed in 1919 steel strike

The mismatch between craft unionism and the emerging modern workplace

The knights of labor emphasized cooperation and education to achieve its goal

True

The largely bureaucratic nature of US unions was cemented in the late 1940s and 1950s when opposition groups within the major CIO unions were driven out under the guise of rooting out communists during the beginnings of the cold war

True

Public attention to the labor movement in the 1950s largely centered allegations of BLANK, as captured by the classic 1954 movie On the waterfront

Union corruption

What were the results of the Memphis sanitation strike

a nondiscrimination clause promotions based on seniority rather than racism improved wages

Most unions in the AFL wholeheartedly endorsed a system of BLANK BLANK, in which unions were divided along the lines of occupation or trade

craft unionism

The Knights of labor organization was directly involved in the haymarket tradegy

false

The wave of congress of industrial organizations energy was limited to the industrial centers of the midwest

false

Which of the following show the impact of the postwar model of union representation

grievance resolution became very formal injury rates increased

A feature of company unions is that they

had the authority to force management to discuss specific issues

Which of the following resulted from the functioning of the national war labor board that was created by president roosevelt

in return for enhanced workplace security, organized labor essentially traded its right to strike a burecrarcy was formed

Which of the following were part of the watershed GM sit-down strike of 1936?

in the battle of the running bulls, police were repules by fire hoses and strikers who threw two pound car door gingers from the roof Food was provided to the strikes by outside union members and the women's aux

to the public, the open shop movement illustrated an ideology of

individual freedom

identify a true statement about the business unionism philosophy, which was followed by the AFL

it seeks to win labors fair share of profits through collective bargaining supported by the threat of striking

A concentrated drive by employers and their employess association in the early 1900s to created and maintain union free workplaces is called BLANK BLANK movement

open shop

John j lewis and the leaders of seven other unions created the CIO to

pursue unionization of the mass manufacturing industries via industrial unionism

What were the causes of the great strike wave of 1945-46

reduced employee earnings with the inevitable postwar production slowdown a renewed drive by management to reassert its workplace control and cost discipline

The craft unionism of the AFL emphasized

skilled occupations such as printers, machinists, carpenters, cigar makers

What was the practical element to the emphasis of the top leadership of the knights of labor on education over strikes and boycotts

the leaders remembered labors defeats as part of the great uprising of 1877

What led to the recognition of the United Auto Workers that ended the GM sit down strike

the refusal of the governor to order the national guard to forcibly evacuate the Chevrolet plants

The knights of labor is traditionally considered the major US example of BLANK BLANK, a philosophy in which a union :aspired chiefly to elevate the moral, intellectual, and social life of the worker

uplift unionism

which of the following was an effect of the movement of the CIO unions from community based to work place-based unionism

women were downgraded to marginal roles

The watershed GM sit down strike started in december 1936 when

workers in flint, mi took over two Chevrolet plants by sitting down and refusing to work or vacate the plant


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