- Industria: Government; Labor
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A system of clandestine routes toward Canada whereby abolitionists helped fugitive slaves escape to freedom.
Industry:Labor
Associated with the principles of "scientific management" advocated by Frederick W. Taylor at the beginning of the twentieth century. Tayor proposed time and motion studies of jobs to enable managers to set standards for more efficient production. Unions argued that Taylorism was the old speed up in modern dress.
Industry:Labor
In 1947, Congress passed the Taft Hartley Act which outlawed the closed shop, jurisdictional strikes, and secondary boycotts. It set up machinery for decertifying unions and allowed the states to pass more stringent legislation against unions such as right to work laws. Employers and unions were forbidden to contribute funds out of their treasuries to candidates for federal office, supervision was denied union protection, and the unions seeking the services of the National Labor Relations Board had to file their constitutions, by laws, and financial statements with the U. S. Department of Labor. Their officers also had to sign a non communist affidavit.
Industry:Labor
A strike by persons not directly involved in a labor dispute in order to show solidarity with the original strikers and increase pressure on the employer.
Industry:Labor
A temporary work stoppage by workers to support their demands on an employer. Also called a "turn out" early in the nineteenth century.
Industry:Labor
The practice of employers getting work done by an outside contractor and not by workers in the bargaining unit. Also called "contracting out. "
Industry:Labor
A provision in the union contract which provides laid off workers with benefits in addition to unemployment compensation.
Industry:Labor
A person hired by an employer to infiltrate the union and report on its activities.
Industry:Labor
The idea that the state is king and public employees had no right to make demands on it. In 1949 a New York court said: To tolerate or recognize any combination of civil service employees of the government as a labor organization or union is not only incompatible with the spirit of democracy but inconsistent with every principle upon which our government is founded.
Industry:Labor
