Labor relations

Labor relations

Industry: Labor

Contributors in Labor relations

Labor relations

Agents of the Allan Pinkerton Detective Agency of Chicago who were hired by employers to break strikes or act as company spies within unions. Some believe the expression "Fink," a pejorative term for ...

Piecework

Labor; Labor relations

The incentive wage system by which workers are paid by the individual piece worked on or completed.

Picketing

Labor; Labor relations

The stationing of persons outside a place of employment to publically protest the employer and to discourage entry of nonstriking workers or customers. Most picketing takes place during strikes ...

Perquisites

Labor; Labor relations

In addition to payment of wages, the company provided employees with room, board, and medical care.

Paternalism

Labor; Labor relations

The company considered itself the father of its employees and as such had the responsibility of regulating their lives through company houses, stores, hospitals, theaters, sports programs, churches, ...

Right to work laws

Labor; Labor relations

The term used by opponents of unions to institute open shop laws in the state. The expression has nothing to do with guaranteeing anyone the right to a job.

Redemptioner

Labor; Labor relations

A white emigrant from Europe who paid for his or her voyage to the New World by serving as a servant for a specific period of time. Also known as a freewiller.