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Potpourri
100
This gives a person the exclusive rights to an invention for a specific period of time.
What is a patent?
100
These are the three biggest tycoons (rich, powerful businessmen) of the 2nd Industrial Revolution Era.
Who are Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Stanford?
100
This man wrote the book, Principles of Scientific Management, published in 1911, which gave advice to business managers/owners on how to maximize their profit.
Who is Frederick W. Taylor?
100
This word means a group of workers usually in the same industry who get together to fight for better pay or working conditions.
What is a union?
100
This is the name of the character Charlie Chaplin plays in movies like "Modern Times".
What is The Little Tramp?
200
An inexpensive and quick way of processing steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
200
The first part of this term means "let it be" in French; it is an economic system in which the market is free from government intervention.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
200
This term means separation, isolation, or estrangement - it is one of the negative side effects of industrialization in society.
What is alienation?
200
This woman was dedicated to the issues of workers' rights, especially child workers. She used her public speaking and communication skills to bring about attention to her cherished causes.
Who is Mother Jones?
200
This is the name of the union that was led by Samuel Gompers, who organized only skilled workers together. It is also known as "AFL" and is the longest-lasting and most influential labor organization in the U.S.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
300
The inventor of a lubricator for steam engines.
Who is Elijah McCoy?
300
This is the practice of controlling multiple aspects of the production of an item, like when Carnegie Steel Co. controlled the mills where the steel was made, the mines where the iron ore was extracted, the coal mines that supplied the coal, the ships that transported the iron ore, the railroads that transported the coal to the factory, the ovens where the coal was cooked, and even a college that taught steel processes to workers.
What is vertical integration?
300
This is the name for the phase of the Industrial Revolution that occurred in the mid- to late-1800s, where technological innovations were developed at an accelerated pace.
What is the 2nd Industrial Revolution?
300
This was the strike at the Carnegie Steel Company that occurred in 1892 when unskilled and skilled workers united against their bosses to demand higher pay.
What is the Homestead Strike?
300
This is the labor organization that was once led by Terence V. Powderly, and started out being a secret organization of both skilled and unskilled workers.
What is the Knights of Labor?
400
This invention powered the transportation devices created by both Henry Ford and the Wright brothers.
What is the gas-powered engine?
400
This term describes the time period of the 2nd Industrial Revolution, a time of enormous growth, prosperity, and riches (but also great economic inequalities and poverty). It refers to the ostentatious displays of wealth by the newly rich business tycoons.
What is the Gilded Age?
400
This is one of the differences between skilled and unskilled workers during the Industrial Era.
What is native-born vs. immigrants, percentage of the workplace, different pay, different benefits, different working hours, different kinds of work (dirty and repetitive vs. clean and complex) or level of training/education in a particular skill?
400
This term means the strategy or process of negotiation between a union and its employer, used to bring about higher pay and better working conditions.
What is collective bargaining?
400
This was an 1890 federal law that outlawed the formation of trusts and monopolies, but ended up being useless because of its vague wording.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
500
The technology that allowed Henry Ford to mass produce his car so quickly using interchangeable parts and workers doing simple, repetitive tasks.
What is the moving assembly line?
500
This phrase describes a perversion of Darwin's theory of natural selection, in which the idea of "survival of the fittest" was used to rationalize vast inequalities seen between people.
What is social Darwinism?
500
This is one of the principles of scientific management that was supposed to increase productivity and efficiency.
What is 1) taking knowledge from workers and placing it in the hands of management; 2) speeding up the work process; 3) simplifying tasks by turning them into simplified, monotonous, repetitive motions, or 4) eliminating the need for skilled workers or 5) replacing humans with machines when possible?
500
This was a strike by nearly 4,000 railroad workers in Illinois in 1894. It was a response to the railroad companies' laying off of workers and reduction of wages without also lowering the rents charged to workers housed by the company.
What is the Pullman Strike?
500
This man argued that charity is bad because it keeps poverty, a horrible institution, alive instead of eradicating it.
Who is Slavoj Zizek?
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