Buisness & Unions Flashcards

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Monopoly

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a product provided by only one company.

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Problem about monopolies

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they can changer whatever they want

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Trusts

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a corporation manipulates the market in order to control an entire industry.

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Standard Oil Trust

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John D Rockefeller

biggest trusts to exist

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modern day trusts

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Microsoft.

controls the software that 90% of the market uses. they control the industry.

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Monopoly vs. Trusts

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unlike monopoly that there is one, there are many companies, but one comes on top of the others and controls the market.

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Horizontal Integrations

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control the production of one product that then lets you control a while industry.

Microsoft= controls production of operating system for 90% of computer companies. in return they control the whole market.

John Rockefeller= Standard Oil

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Vertical Integration

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control all aspects of the industry
production, materials, transportation, etc

Andrew Carnegie= US Steel

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merging of companies was a result of

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competition between companies. they decided to lessen competition by the big guys buying out the little guys.

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examples of companies merging

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Carnegie= bought small steel companies 
Rockefeller= bought small oil companies
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a broker

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helps manipulate the market

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12
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J. Piepont Morgan

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a broker

Chase Bank

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13
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made manufacturing easier

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the assembly line

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14
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explain billionaires relationship with politicians

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billionaires have money to the campaigns of politicians to in return get accommodated for when contracts and laws are made

billionaires soon controlled politicians

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Robber Barons

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people who ran trusts
treated everyday people like shit
“I can do whatever I want because I have money”

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example of a Robber Baron

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

wanted to do whatever he wanted because of his money

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17
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Gospel of Wealth

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created by Russell Conwell 
wealth was not looked as a bad thing anymore 
Christian duty to reach wealthy status 
wealthy because God chose them to be 
influenced "On Wealth" by Carnegie
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On Wealth

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Carnegie

Anglo-Saxon race is superior 
inequality is good and inevitable
everyone can't be equal 
some are born better than others 
wealthy should help the poor occasionally 

when Carnegie died he became less selfish and ruthless

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Carl Marks

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believed government is not doing what it should be to avoid trusts and illegal treatment of workers

workers organized themselves after influenced by him

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Communist Manifesto

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Carl Marks

history goes through 4 stages and 2 of those are ones in which people are oppressed by more powerful people.

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Stage 1 of Carl Marks 4 Stages

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Capitalism

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stage 3 of Carl Marks 4stages 
the wealthy take advantage of workers
workers do the work but the owners the only one that see the \$\$$
eventually workers rebel 
"workers of the world unite"
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leads to Socialism and Communism

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Stage 3 : Capitalism

after workers rebel and want everything equal

24
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longest stage of Carl Marks 4 stages of History

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capitalism

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William Sylvis
founder of the national labor union | would later fall apart
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Child Labor
mainly in factories & coal miners small hands fit well into places can go deep into mines
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Black Lung Cancer
common amongst children working in mines, breathing in dust and coal
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The Molly Maguires
one of the first unions ever made James McParland got benefits for workers resulted to violence tho (attacked their boss)
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Pinkerton Agents
infiltrated the Molly Maguires got a lot of them ^ arrested , hung or killed
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Tools of Management
``` Scabs PR Campiagn Pinkertons lockout blacklisting Court injunctions ```
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scabs
people who didn't strike doing the work of those who did not paid for the extra work
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PR Campaign
workers wanted high salaries and less hours. companies found this ludicrous
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Pinkertons
hired to break unions | and diminish strikes
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blacklisting
talking shit about a worker
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Court Injunctions
forcing workers back to work even though they didn't want to go back to rough circumstances
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Tools of Labor
(done by workers) ``` Boycotts Sympathy Demonstrations Informational Picketing Organized Strikes "Wildcat" Strike ```
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Boycotts
people not buying a certain product/from a certain company
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Sympathy Demonstrations
other not included unions strike to show support for other unions
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Informational picketing
done by public unions demonsatrions/strikes before work can't strike during work
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Feudalism
``` the first stage of Karl Marx when a serf(pesant/lower class) is used for labor and the business class (merchants, skilled people) comes out of the serfs. (Like your parents a farmer, but you then become a b usiness owner) eventually, the business class wants more power( because they're discriminated against for once being serfs) so they have a rebellion and take over the nobility. Once they take over the nobility, they enter a stage called capitalism ```
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feudalism leads to
capitalism