Industrial Revolution

2. the repossession and fencing-in by landowners of formerly common lands
4. the practice of using children as manual laborers
7. a pre-industrial system of manufacturing in which workers crafted products in their homes
8. a form of protest in which workers refuse to work
10. the growth of cities
11. a political theory that advocates ownership of the means of production by the people rather than by capitalists and ladowners
14. an organization that brings together workers in the same trade or job to fight for better wages and working conditions
16. the amount of goods or services that result for each unit of required resources used

1. a small factory where employees work long hours under poor conditions for low wages
3. negotiations between employers and employees concerning wages, working conditions, and other terms of employment
5. a relatively inexpensive method for converting iron to steel by using a blast of air to remove carbon from molten iron
6. the high-volume, low-cost manufacture of identical items through the use of specialization and interchangeable parts
9. parts that can be swapped for one another in the assembling of a product because they have been precisely cut and shaped to be identical
12. complete control by one firm of the production and/or the supply of a good
13. the idea that the free market will regulate itself, and that the gov't should not interfere in this process
15. an industrial system of manufacturing in which workers, raw materials and machinery are gathered under the same roof