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Term | Definition |
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Philanthropist | Person who donates large sums of money to charity. |
Laissez-faire | Government must leave "hands-off" approach to private business |
Capitalism | Economic system in which production and distribution are privately owned. |
Mass Production | Using the assembly line to make large quantities of products faster and cheaper. |
Strike | To refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet certain demands |
Assembly Line | manufacturing practice where individual repeats a task rather than complete the entire item |
Monopoly | control all aspects of a given industry |
sweat shop | workplace with long hours, unsafe conditions or low pay |
labor union | organization set up to help meet the needs of workers |
consolidation | business combined to form a larger one |