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Labor

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

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picketing

Labor; Labor relations

The stationing of persons outside a place of employment to publically protest the employer and to discourage entry of nonstriking workers or customers. Most picketing takes place ...

perquisites

Labor; Labor relations

In addition to payment of wages, the company provided employees with room, board, and medical care.

paternalism

Labor; Labor relations

The company considered itself the father of its employees and as such had the responsibility of regulating their lives through company houses, stores, hospitals, theaters, sports ...

Palmer raids

Labor; Labor relations

In 1919 20, U. S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer conducted raids on the headquarters of alleged radicals. Unionists, liberals, radicals, and aliens were indiscriminately ...

pace setter

Labor; Labor relations

A method of speeding up work. The pace setter is a person who sets the work pace, usually at an ever higher rate, by leading the work gang and necessitating its catching up with ...

open shop

Labor; Labor relations

A business that employs workers without regard to union membership. In the 1920s the "open shop" employed an ill disguised attempt to get ride of bona fide unions. States with ...

one big union

Labor; Labor relations

The slogan of the IWW which stressed the inclusion of everyone, regardless of trade, into an all encompassing union. This was also the rationale for the general strike where ...