Kids on Strike Vocabulary Strike a work stoppage
Kids on Strike Vocabulary
Strike a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work
Factory building where laborers manufacture goods or supervise machines
Mills factory, place of business for making articles of manufacture
mill girls that work in factories
Wages financial compensation received by workers in exchange for their labor
Boardinghouse where you rent rooms for an extended period of time
Blacklisted to deny someone work in a particular field
Salary form of payment from an employer
Protest strong reaction against something
Foremen • A workers who supervises and directs other workers
Resisted Try to prevent by action or argument
Negotiated try to reach an agreement or compromise by discussions with others
Independence freedom from control or influence of another or others
Industries productions of an economic good
Loom device used to weave cloth
Regulations controlling human or societal behavior by rules or restrictions
Farmhands a hired hand on a farm
Domestic servants someone who works within the employers household
apprentice • System of training a new generation of practitioners of a skill
Bankrupt person or organization that cannot repay its debts
Dutiful obediently fulfilling ones duty
Exploitation • Act of using something in an unjust or cruel manner
Tuberculosis contagious bacterial infection that involves the lungs
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