- Industri: Government; Labor
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There are two different hours concepts measured in the CPS: usual hours and actual hours at work. Usual hours refer to a person’s normal work schedule versus their actual hours at work during the survey reference week. For example, a person who normally works 40 hours per week, but was off for a 1-day holiday during the reference week, would report his or her usual hours as 40 but actual hours at work for the reference week as 32.
Industry:Labor
A nickname for members of the workingmen's associations in the 1820s and '30s.
Industry:Labor
A contract a worker was compelled to sign stating that he or she would not join a union. The practice was outlawed in 1932 by the passage of the Norris LaCuardia Act.
Industry:Labor
Workers who have office jobs rather than factory, farm, or construction work.
Industry:Labor
A clause in the contract providing for the union shop, maintenance of membership or the agency shop.
Industry:Labor
When southern plantations were broken up after the Civil War, blacks and poor whites were controlled by landowners through sharecropping. The tenant farmer paid roughly a third of his crop to the landlord, a third for provisions, tools, and other necessities, and. He kept whatever was left. Unsuccessful efforts were made in the 1930s to organize tenant farmers by the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. More sustained attempts at farm worker organization are being made today.
Industry:Labor
A system of clandestine routes toward Canada whereby abolitionists helped fugitive slaves escape to freedom.
Industry:Labor
A strike by persons not directly involved in a labor dispute in order to show solidarity with the original strikers and increase pressure on the employer.
Industry:Labor
A temporary work stoppage by workers to support their demands on an employer. Also called a "turn out" early in the nineteenth century.
Industry:Labor
