- Industry: Government; Labor
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Reference to partisans of the Greenback Party and the Greenback Labor Party of the 1870s. Greenbackers advocated increased issues of paper money to make cash more readily available to people. They also demanded shorter work hours, abolition of convict labor, boards of labor statistics, and restrictions on immigrant labor.
Industry:Labor
A worker in the bargaining unit who refuses to join the union but accepts all the benefits negotiated by the union. Also called a "freeloader. "
Industry:Labor
Early labor groups formed by workers for social and philanthropic purposes.
Industry:Labor
Negotiated gains other than wages such as vacations, holidays, pensions, insurance and supplemental unemployment benefits.
Industry:Labor
President Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive order dubbed by unions "the gag order" which forbade federal employees on pain of dismissal to seek legislation on their behalf except through their own department.
Industry:Labor
A person brought in from the outside to break strikes and union organizing attempts.
Industry:Labor
Employing more workers than are actually necessary to complete a task.
Industry:Labor
Passed in 1938, this law set minimum wages and overtime rates and prohibited child labor for industry connected with interstate commerce.
Industry:Labor
The factory system which employed men, women, and children and made no special provisions for their housing.
Industry:Labor
The worker is paid a fixed amount for the day rather than being paid a salary or being paid for the individual piece produced.
Industry:Labor
