Unit 4 Vocab

1. How economic choices affect jobs, income, poverty, and people’s lives in a community.
9. Using symbols to express ideas or hidden meanings.
10. The strength workers or groups have to negotiate for better pay or working conditions.
14. A Spanish word for a manual worker; refers to Mexican laborers who legally worked in the U.S. under the Bracero Program to support their families.
16. When workers’ pay stays the same for a long time, even as life gets more expensive.
17. When there aren’t enough workers to meet the demand for jobs in a place or industry.
18. Specific rules or conditions written in an agreement, contract, or law.
19. Using someone’s work, resources, or weaknesses to benefit yourself, usually without paying them fairly or caring about their safety.
20. Companies mainly focused on making money for their owners or shareholders.
21. Work done by hand that requires physical effort rather than machines.
22. How money and resources are divided among people and social groups.

2. When people in the same social group understand they share problems and interests and might act together.
3. The set of social and economic rules and institutions that shape how society works.
4. An economic system where private people or companies own businesses and aim to make profit.
5. The difference between the jobs available and the workers who can fill them.
6. Pictures words, or objects that stand for ideas.
7. When people move from one place to another; inside a country (internal) or between countries (international).
8. A situation where some social groups have more money and power than others.
11. People who do manual or factory jobs and usually earn wages for their work.
12. Replacing hand work with machines, especially in farming or factories.
13. Forcing people of different races or ethnicities to live, work, or go to school separately.
15. When work shifted from hand tools to machines in big factories, causing big economic and technological changes.