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chapter 22 vocabular
Civics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a business owned and operated by a single person | Sole Proprietorship |
| money used to buy the tools and equipment used in production | Financial Capital |
| a business owned by two or more people | Partnership |
| formal legal papers specifying the arrangement between partners | Articles Of Partnership |
| type of business organization owned by many people but treated by law as though it were a person | Corporation |
| a government document granting permission to organize a corporation | Charter |
| ownership share of a corporation | Stock |
| an individual who has invested in a corporation and owns some of its stock | Stockholder |
| people elected by the shareholders of a corporation at act on their behalf | Board Of directors |
| a voluntary association of people formed to carry on some kind of economic activity that will benefit its members | Cooperative |
| association of workers organized to improve wages and working conditions | Labor union |
| state laws forbidding unions from forcing workers to join | Right-to-work laws |
| process by which unions and employers negotiate the conditions of employment | Collective Bargaining |
| situation in which union and company officials bring in a third party to try to help them reach an agreement | Mediation |
| situation in which union and company officials submit the issues they cannot agree on to a third party for a final decision | Arbitration |
| when workers deliberately stop working in order to force an employer to give in to their demands | Strike |
| the refusal to purchase certain goods | Boycott |
| process of making business deals more visible to everyone | Transparency |
| unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group | Discrimination |
| the obligation a business has to pursue goals that benefit society as well as themselves | Social Responsibility |