People who all had the same skill or job belonged to this kind of union.
What is a trade union or craft union?
100
A union's most powerful tool is this.
What is a strike?
100
This is the minimum age to be considered part of the "civilian labor force," and calculated into unemployment numbers.
What is 16 years old?
100
The lowest legal hourly pay in an area is known as this.
What is "minimum wage"?
200
One early strategy for breaking up unions was to argue that they were this type of large, illegal association.
What is a monopoly?
200
In states with "right to work" laws, this is illegal.
What is requiring a worker to belong to a union in order to get/keep a certain job?
200
The workers who have the least training are called this.
What is "unskilled labor"?
200
Often calculated at somewhere around $12 an hour, this term refers to the lowest possible amount that can be paid in order that the worker can have basic food, shelter, etc. without assistance.
What is "a living wage"?
200
Name a major reason part-time workers usually cost employers much less per hour than full-time workers.
What is that they usually don't receive benefits?
300
The first sector of the economy to widely unionize was this.
What is the manufacturing sector?
300
To stop buying a company's products or services in order to force them to do something is known as this.
What is boycotting?
300
The type of workers with the highest level of education and skills is known as _________________ labor.
What is professional labor?
300
The "traditional theory of wage determination" is based on the idea that THIS MAJOR ECONOMIC CONCEPT determines how much a worker will be paid.
What is "supply and demand"?
300
Name at least one region of the country where right-to-work laws are common (and therefore unions are relatively weak.)
What is the Southeast, the Great Plains states, or the Mountain West?
400
The merger of two large unions in the 1950s created this huge union, which is still strong today.
What is the AFL-CIO?
400
The process of negotiating a contract between labor and employer (covering pay, working conditions, etc.) is known as this.
What is "collective bargaining"?
400
Name at least one major reason women tend to be paid less than men.
What is choice of occupation ("helping professions"), the "mommy tax," the "glass ceiling."
400
According to "signaling theory," employers will offer higher wages when they see signs of worth such as this.
What are diplomas/degrees/program certificates?
400
The study of "big picture" economics - wages, unemployment, inflation, and so on - is called this.
What is macroeconomics?
500
After WWII, many Americans became suspicious of unions again because they were thought to be affiliated with this political movement.
What is Communism?
500
When unions back off of one of their demands to keep a business from going bankrupt, it is known as this.
What is a giveback?
500
When adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage was highest during this decade.
What is the 1960s?
500
The minimum wage in Oregon as of January 1, 2011.
What is $8.50?
500
When a company refuses to allow workers to work until their demands are met, it is called this.