Labor

Labor

The body of persons, or the human physical and mental effort, engaged in the production of goods and services.

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union security

Labor; Labor relations

A clause in the contract providing for the union shop, maintenance of membership or the agency shop.

union label

Labor; Labor relations

A stamp or a tag on products to show that the work was done by union labor.

tenant farmer

Labor; Labor relations

When southern plantations were broken up after the Civil War, blacks and poor whites were controlled by landowners through sharecropping. The tenant farmer paid roughly a third of ...

underground railroad

Labor; Labor relations

A system of clandestine routes toward Canada whereby abolitionists helped fugitive slaves escape to freedom.

Taylorism

Labor; Labor relations

Associated with the principles of "scientific management" advocated by Frederick W. Taylor at the beginning of the twentieth century. Tayor proposed time and motion studies of ...

Taft Hartley

Labor; Labor relations

In 1947, Congress passed the Taft Hartley Act which outlawed the closed shop, jurisdictional strikes, and secondary boycotts. It set up machinery for decertifying unions and ...

sympathy strike

Labor; Labor relations

A strike by persons not directly involved in a labor dispute in order to show solidarity with the original strikers and increase pressure on the employer.