front 1 assembly line | back 1 an arrangement of machines, tools, and workers in which a product is assembled by having each perform a specific, successive operation on an incomplete unit as it passes by in a series of stages organized in a direct line. |
front 2 capitalism | back 2 An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods. |
front 3 combination acts | back 3 British acts of 1799 and 1822 that made trade unionism illegal. |
front 4 comand economy. | back 4 An economic system in which activity is controlled by a central authority and the means of production are publicly owned. |
front 5 corporations | back 5 An association of employers and employees in a basic industry. |
front 6 imigration | back 6 Departure from a place of abode, natural home, or your country for life or residence elsewhere. |
front 7 Entrepreneur | back 7 One who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise. |
front 8 Globalization | back 8 The development of an increasingly integrate global economy mark especially by free trade, free flow of capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets. |
front 9 Immigration | back 9 Travel into a country for the purpose of permanent residence there. |
front 10 Industrialization | back 10 The widespread development of industries in a region, country, culture, etc. |
front 11 Labor | back 11 Human activity that provides the goods or services in an economy |
front 12 Middle Class | back 12 A class occupying a position between the upper class and the lower class. |
front 13 Pull Factor | back 13 Factors which attract people to move to a certain area. |
front 14 Push Factor | back 14 Conditions that force people to leave their home. |
front 15 Reform | back 15 To put or change into an improved form or condition. |
front 16 Spinning Jenny | back 16 An early multiple-spindle machine for spinning wool or cotton. |
front 17 Spinning Mule | back 17 Multiple-spindle spinning machine invented by Samuel Crompton which permitted large manufacture of high-quality thread for the textile industry. |
front 18 Standard Of Living | back 18 A minimum of necessities, comforts, or luxuries essential to maintaining a person or group in customary or proper status or circumstances. |
front 19 Steam Engine | back 19 An engine driven or worked by steam. |
front 20 Stocks | back 20 Money or capital invested or available for investment or trading. |
front 21 Strike | back 21 A work stoppage by a body of workers to enforce compliance with demands made on an employer. |
front 22 Tenement | back 22 A house used a dwelling. |
front 23 Textile | back 23 Fiber, filament, or yarn used in making cloth |
front 24 Union | back 24 A confederation of independent individuals for some common purpose. |
front 25 Urbanization | back 25 An increase in population in cities and towns versus rural areas |
front 26 Working Class | back 26 Of relating to, deriving from, or suitable to the class of wage earners, |