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Lesson 22 Vocabulary
Problems with Living in an Industrial Society
Term | Definition |
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unions | Groups of workers that gather together to try and improve their working conditions. |
strike | Workers agree to stop working and refuse to return to work until their demands are met. |
emigrants | One who leaves one's country or region to settle in another. |
food processing | A method of placing cooked foods in tin cans or glass jars so that foods could be preserved and stored for longer periods of time. |
department stores | A store keeping a variety of goods which are arranged in several departments. |
five and dime store | A store at which articles were sold for five or ten cents. |
telephone | Communication invention by Alexander Graham Bell in the 1870s. |
typewriter | Hand-operated machine for printing written messages one character at a time. |