The Coming of the Railroads Opened a New Era of Prosperity

question 7

True/False

The coming of the railroads opened a new era of prosperity for the borderland communities.

Understand the concept and objectives of different models of unionism (e.g., social, job control, business, industrial, craft, employee empowerment).

Identify the characteristics and critiques of job control unionism.

Recognize the role of unions in society and the workplace, including their impact on social and political power.

Describe the relationship between union structures and their scope of representation.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values from their mean.

Normally Distributed

Describes a distribution that is symmetrical, bell-shaped, and characterized by data equally spread around the mean, implying many measurement observations fall close to the average.

Mean

The average value in a set of numbers calculated by dividing the sum of all values by the number of values.

Z-scores

Standardized scores that indicate the number of standard deviations an element is from the mean.