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Chapter 22 Vocab
Business and Labor
Term | Definition |
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Sole Proprietorship | Business owned by a single person |
Financial Capital | Money used to buy the tools and equipment to produce |
Partnership | A business owned by two or more people |
Articles of Partnership | Formal legal papers specifying the arrangements between partners |
Corporation | Type of business organized and owned by many people but treated by law as though it were one person |
Charter | A written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial governments |
Stock | Ownership share of a coporation |
Stockholders | An individual who has invested in stock |
Board of Directors | People elected by shareholders of a corporation to act on their behalf |
Cooperative | To help |
Labor Unions | Association of workers organized to improve wages and working conditions |
Right-to-Work Laws | State laws forbidding unions from forcing workers to join |
Collective Bargaining | Process by which unions and employers negotiate the conditions of employment |
Mediation | Situation in which unions and company officials bringing in third party companies to help them come to an agreement |
Arbitration | When unions and companies submit their problems to a third party company to come to a final decision |
Strike | When workers stop working to try to force the company to give into their demands |
Boyott | The refusal to purchase certain goods |
Transparency | Process of making business deals visible to everyone |
Discrimination | Unfair treatment on people based on prejudice of a certain group |
Social Responsibilities | The obligation of a business to pursue goals that benefit themselves as well as society |