Question 1

How has intense global competition affected the American labor movement?

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Question 2

How was welfare capitalism used to prevent unionization?

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Question 3

Explain how mass production manufacturing practices influenced the rise in labor unions.

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Question 4

How were company unions or employee representation plans inferior to worker controlled unions?

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Question 5

Explain the primary goals of the National Labor Union.

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Question 6

How were the concept of job standards and work rules important to the vision of the American Federation of Labor?

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Question 7

What is the significance of the National War Labor Board in the development of U.S. labor relations?

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Question 8

Explain the primary goals of the Knights of Labor.

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Question 9

In 1968, the ________________ brought together the interests of the labor movement and the Civil Rights Movement by uniting interests over the fair and humane treatment of workers and respect for their civil rights.

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Question 10

The __________________ strike is famous because President Reagan fired over 11,000 air traffic controllers and hired nonunion replacement workers who later decertified the union.

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Question 11

In 2005, four major unions, including the Teamsters Union, broke away from the AFL and joined together with three other unions to form a new union federation known as __________________________.

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Question 12

Explain how the Great Uprising of 1877 laid the foundation for future labor-management relations.

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Question 13

Explain how employers exploited American values of independence, liberty and freedom to fight unions in the early 1900s.

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Question 14

Explain the primary goals of the American Federation of Labor.

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Question 15

WWII was followed by the greatest period of strikes in the U.S. known as ________________.

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Question 16

After so many years of craft unionism, what led to the rise of industrial unionism in the United States?

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Question 17

Explain the primary goals of the Industrial Workers of the World.

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Question 18

The __________________________ was created by President Roosevelt to resolve labor disputes during WWII.

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Question 19

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                        Premises:  Founded in 1869, this union favored arbitration as a method for achieving its goals of education, enlightenment, and reform of the capitalist system to one of consumer and producer cooperatives through employee savings. As an uplift union, this union was concerned with improving social conditions, particularly through education. 
Founded in 1905, this union also favored the use of strikes in its efforts to abolish the wage-earning system and institute worker control over production. As a revolutionary union, it is known for its willingness to use violence and social discord to achieve its ends. 
  Founded in 1886, this union used strikes as its primary weapon in achieving economic gains for workers. Considered the first business union. 
 Considered a reform union and founded in 1866, this union sponsored the Labor Reform party its goals of and reforming the capitalist system to one of consumer and producer cooperatives through legal reform and political action.

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Question 20

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                        Premises: Its primary goal is to elevate the moral, intellectual, and social life of the worker. 
Accepts capitalism and employers' need to profit but emphasizes immediate improvements in employment and winning labor's fair share of profits through collective bargaining. 
A union whose primary purpose is to change the political and legal framework through mostly peaceful means. 
Unions divided by occupation or trade so that each union can focus on the unique concerns of workers in the occupation. 
 Seeks to organize all of the workers in an industry regardless of their occupations or their skill levels.

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Quiz 3: Historical Development