- Industry: Government; Labor
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The system associated with Lowell, Massachusetts, whereby workers, mainly young women, lived in boarding houses owned and run by the company.
Industry:Labor
A provision in the union contract which says that a worker who voluntarily joins the union must remain a member for the duration of the agreement.
Industry:Labor
Union descriptions of tragic events in labor history. Examples include Chicago's Memorial Day Massacre where ten steelworkers were shot dead and over eighty were wounded by police on May 30, 1937. There was the Hilo, Hawaii, Massacre of 1938 where nearly fifty unionists were shot or bayonetted by police while sitting on a government pier protesting the unloading of a struck ship. Also, the Ludlow Massacre of 1914 which included the killing of eleven children and two women by the state militia.
Industry:Labor
A court order which prohibits a party from taking a particular course of action, such as picketing in the case of a union on strike.
Industry:Labor
A worker who has completed his apprenticeship in a trade or craft and is therefore considered a qualified skilled worker.
Industry:Labor
Arguments among unions over which union represents workers at a job site.
Industry:Labor
The Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959. The law contains regulations for union election procedures and supervision of their financial affairs by the U. S. Department of Labor.
Industry:Labor
A union which includes all the workers in an industry regardless of their craft. Industrial unions formed the base of the CIO.
Industry:Labor
The great advances in technology beginning in the late eighteenth century turned America from a handicraft economy into one of technological mass production.
Industry:Labor
