Industry & Trade Unions

Question 1

Groups of workers originally formed to create a community of certain crafts and trades.

Answer 1

trade unions

Question 2

A prominent union organizer during the early 1900s who spent most of her life fighting for all workers’ rights and specifically child labor rights.

Answer 2

Mary Harris Jones

Question 3

President of the Cigar Makers’ Union who grew the AFL to more than 1.6 million members under his leadership

Answer 3

Samuel Gompers

Question 4

A labor union formed by angry workers in Chicago, Illinois in 1905, who believed that the AFL was not doing enough to help them.

Answer 4

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Question 5

The negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees.

Answer 5

collective bargaining

Question 6

Workers who are hired in place of others who are on strike.

Answer 6

strikebreakers

Question 7

The first important labor organization in the United States which was founded in 1869 as a secret society of garment (sewing) workers in Philadelphia.

Answer 7

Knights of Labor

Question 8

Another name for garment factories where workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions.

Answer 8

sweatshops