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