Vocab for chapter 19/20

2. discount given as a partial refund
4. an order, a legal order forbidding something
8. a joining together, merging to make a whole
11. a person hired to replace a striking worker in order to break up a strike
13. line factory method in which work moves past stationary workers who preform a single task
14. a payment made from a company’s profits to people who own stock in the company
16. early Ford car
18. a group sharing in some activity
21. a person who starts and operates hir or hers own business
22. the manufacturing of large amounts of a product by machines in a factory

1. negotiation between employer and workers over wages and benefits
3. a situation in which a single person or company controls all the means of creating or selling a certain type of product
5. a market share of a business or company
6. resources like labor and materials that are used to produce goods
7. a person who invests in a company by buying stock
8. money or assets needed to fund a project
9. a factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions
10. the distance between the rails agreed upon by all the railroad companies, 4’ 8.5
12. power business leaders who controlled the major railroads
15. the combining of two companies into one
17. a business organization with specific business powers, duties, and responsibilities
19. people who do work
20. a group of companies joined by a legal agreement, designed to reduce competition