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Industrial - TERMS 2
Industrialization
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Monopoly | When one person or one company has control of an industry. |
| labor union | organized groups working to gain improved working conditions, better wages, more safety |
| strike | workers refuse to work to try to force businesses to meet their demands |
| urbanization | the process of moving into cities |
| immigrants | a person who moves to another country to live |
| working class | a group of people who do manual or industrial work |
| migration | people moving to a new area |
| laborer | a person who has a job that requires hard, physical work. |
| push factors | reasons that would influence people to leave their home and migrate somewhere else (examples: pollution,lack of jobs and opportunities) |
| pull factors | things that attract people to a new place (examples: better jobs, education, medical care) |