Chapter 20

6. person who starts and operates his or her own business
9. the combining of two companies into one
10. a group sharing in some activity
11. the manufacturing of large amounts of a product by machines in a factory
14. a business organization with specific business powers, duties, and responsibilties
16. a factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy
17. line. factory method in which work moves past stationary workers who perform a single task
21. the people who do work
22. a payment made from a company's profits to people who own stock in the company
23. a person who invests in a company by buying stock

1. a joining together, merging to make whole
2. an order, a legal order forbidding something
3. of production. resources like labor and materials that are used to produce goods
4. discount given as a partial refund
5. a person hired to replace a striking worker in order to break up a strike
7. a situation in which a single person or company controls all the means of creating or selling a certain type of product
8. a group of companies joined by a legal agreement, designed to reduce competition
12. gauge. the distance between the rails agreed upon by all railroad companies, 4' 8.5
13. a market share of a business or company
15. bargaining. negotiation between employer and workers over wages and benefits
18. t. Early ford car
19. barons. power business leaders who controlled the major railroads
20. money or assets needed to fund a project