Test Bank For Labor Relations Striking a Balance John Budd 5th Edition

1.

The transition of the United States from an agrarian, rural society with self-employed farmers, shopkeepers, blacksmiths, and shoemakers to one where most workers sell their labor for a wage or a salary was largely a smooth and relatively painless process.

FALSE

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Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 03-01 Understand why workers have tried to form unions throughout U.S. history and the influences on their successes and failures.

2.

The first national unions in the U.S. began to develop during the early 1900’s.

FALSE

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Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 03-01 Understand why workers have tried to form unions throughout U.S. history and the influences on their successes and failures.

3.

The first unions in the U.S. were focused at the local level, representing a single craft or trade.

TRUE

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Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 03-01 Understand why workers have tried to form unions throughout U.S. history and the influences on their successes and failures.

4.

The National Labor Union was one large union that directly represented workers from many trades, crafts, and industries.

FALSE

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Difficulty: 3 Hard
Learning Objective: 03-01 Understand why workers have tried to form unions throughout U.S. history and the influences on their successes and failures.

5.

The Great Uprising of 1877 was successful in improving labor relations between workers and winning wage increases and reductions in hours of work.

FALSE

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Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 03-02 Identify the major events in U.S. labor history, including what happened and why each event is significant.

6.

The Knights of Labor is generally considered an example of an “uplift union” due to its mission to elevate the moral, intellectual, and social lives of workers.

TRUE

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Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 03-03 Compare the major organizations in labor history and their contrasting strategies, including labor strategies for promoting collective action among workers and business strategies for discouraging or repressing such action.

7.

The Knights of Labor was an exclusive union that allowed only certain types of workers to join its ranks while not allowing other types of workers (e.g., women and minorities) to join.

FALSE