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chapter 22 vocabular
Civics
Question | Answer |
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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 |