Big Business And Labor T&N Flashcards

1
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Standard oil owner that had the idea that businesses should enter into a trust where a group of smaller company trustees made decisions for the trust.

A

John D. Rockefeller

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Also known as mother, united to help with many strikes and became a champion for the cruelties of child labor

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Mary Harrison Jones

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3
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Owning every part of a product development from the raw materials to the factories that make the product to the stores that sell it

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Vertical and horizontal interrogation

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Rags to riches, mother mortgaged home to buy stock. He then founded a steel company that produced more still than all of Britain

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Andrew Carnegie

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AKA the Wobblies. Group of radical socialist, unionists.

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Industrial workers of the world

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Used by businessman to justify that businesses should not be regulated. That the best businesses would survive and the weaker would not.

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Social Darwinism

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7
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Led cigar makers to unite with each other craft workers to form a larger more powerful union.

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Samuel Gompers

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Combined groups of different workers into one union and used strikes as a primary tool to get higher wages and better working conditions.

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American Federation of labor

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9
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Made it illegal to enter into a group that interfered with free trade

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Sherman antitrust act

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10
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Believed that unions should also include unskilled laborers

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Eugene V Debs

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