a work stoppage by a body of workers to enforce compliance with demands made on an employer
strike
an early multi-spindle machine for spinning wool and cotton
spinning jenny
an economic system in which activity is controlled by a central authority and the mean of production are publicly owned
command economy
a house used as a dwelling
tenement
one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risk of a business or enterprise
entreponuer
to put or change into an improved form or condition
reform
an arrangement of machines, equipment, and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product is assembled
assembly line
an increase in population in cities and towns versus rural areas
urbanization
refers to the factors which attract people to move to a certain area
pull factor
an engine driven or worked by steam
steam engine
the services preformed by workers for wages as distinguished from those rendered by entreponuers for profit
labor
the development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade, free flow of capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets
globalization
of, relating to, deriving from, or suitable to the class of wage earners
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