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