Across
- 4. a skilled worker labor union founded by Samuel Gompers that focused on wages, hours, and working conditions.
- 5. Carnegie‘s belief that the rich had a moral duty to distribute their fortunes for the public good.
- 6. a market condition in which a single company controls the entire supply of a product.
- 8. a federal law passed in 1887 that aimed at regulating railroad rates and practices to limit unfair treatment of farmers and small shippers
- 9. an 1886 Chicago labor protest that turned violent after a bomb exploded, helping to discredit the labor movement.
- 11. strategy used by Rockefeller to buy out rivals and consolidate firms producing the same product.
- 12. an 1894 national labor conflict that was triggered by wage cuts in a company town ending with federal troop intervention.
- 14. a critical nickname for industrial lists, accused of exploiting workers, corrupting politics and manipulating markets.
Down
- 1. a business strategy perfected by Carnegie in which a company controls all steps of production, from raw materials to distribution.
- 2. a piece of legislation passed in 1890 that broke up combinations that restrained trade, though it was originally used against labor unions.
- 3. a theory applied to capitalism arguing that competition and survival of the fittest justified wealth inequality.
- 7. a system of scientific management that subdivided tasks to increase efficiency, but reduced workers to repetitive labor.
- 10. a broad labor organization of the 1880s advocating workplace cooperatives, an eight hour workday, and equal pay for women.
- 13. large combinations of corporations formed to reduce competition and dominate markets under a unified management.