Chapter 8 Term List
Section 1: The Labor Movement
1. Macroeconomics
2. Civilian labor force
3. Civilian
4. Importance of labor unions
5. Impact of immigrants on labor movement
6. Craft or trade unions
7. Industrial unions
8. Strike
9. Picket
10. Boycott
11. Lock out
12. Company unions
13. Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
14. Restraint of trade
15. Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
16. Great Depression
17. Norris-LaGuardia Act (1932)
18. National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)/Wagner Act (1935)
19. Unfair labor practice
20. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
21. Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)
22. Interstate Commerce
23. Minimum wage
24. Overtime
25. Child labor
26. Hazardous jobs
27. Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
28. “Cooling off” period
29. Right-to-work law
30. Landrum-Griffin Act (1959)
31. Secret ballot
32. AFL
33. CIO
34. John L. Lewis
35. AFL-CIO
36. Jurisdictional dispute
37. Independent unions
Section 2: Resolving Union & Management Differences
1. Closed shop
2. Union shop
3. Union shop v. right-to-work law
4. Modified union shop
5. Agency shop
6. Collective bargaining
7. Grievance procedure
8. Mediation
9. Mediator
10. Arbitration – voluntary v. compulsory
11. Fact-finding
12. Injunction
13. Seizure
14. Presidential intervention
Section 3: Labor & Wages
1. Unskilled labor
2. Semi-skilled labor
3. Skilled labor
4. Professional labor
5. Noncompeting labor grades
6. Cost
7. Opportunity
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Chapter 8 Term List
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Initiative
Wage determination
Wage rates
Traditional theory of wage determination
Equilibrium wage rate
Theory of negotiated wages
Seniority
Labor mobility
Cost of living
Location
Section 4: Employment Trends & Issues
1. Reasons for decline of union influence
2. Giveback
3. Two-tier wage system
4. Distribution of employment by gender
5. Glass ceiling
6. Equal Pay Act (1963)
7. Civil Rights Act (1964)
8. EEOC
9. Comparable worth
10. Set-aside contract
11. MBE
12. Minimum wage
13. Current dollars
14. Real or constant dollars
15. Base year
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