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Grade 7 Social Studies

Grade 7 Social Studies. Chapter 12 Definitions and Terms. Resource Industry. An industry based on extracting resources from the earth/ocean. Examples: Mining, fishing and logging. Primary sector jobs are based in this industry. Strikes.

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Grade 7 Social Studies

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  1. Grade 7 Social Studies Chapter 12 Definitions and Terms

  2. Resource Industry • An industry based on extracting resources from the earth/ocean. • Examples: Mining, fishing and logging. • Primary sector jobs are based in this industry.

  3. Strikes • When workers get together and refuse to do any work until the employer takes their grievances seriously.

  4. Grievances • A complaint against something considered unfair or unjust, usually working conditions or wages.

  5. Labour unions • An organization of workers that protects its members’ rights by taking action on issues such as wages and working conditions. • Examples in NL: NLTA, NAPE, CUPE.

  6. Pit • A slang word for coal mine.

  7. Cobber • A mine worker whose job it is to sort useful ore from rock.

  8. Trap/Trapper • Doors in mines that had to be kept closed most of the time to keep in/out dangerous gases. • Trappers opened and closed these doors when coal carts approached.

  9. Workplace Safety Laws • Laws in place that make sure employers have a safe environment for people to work in.

  10. Safety Inspectors • People whose job it is to make sure employers are following all of the workplace safety laws.

  11. Shanty/Bunkhouse • Place where loggers lived while working at a log camp.

  12. Room and Board • A place to sleep (room) and the necessities of life such as food (board).

  13. Fallers • Forestry workers who cut down the trees, sawed limbs off fallen trees and shaped timber.

  14. Skidders • Forestry workers who pulled logs to the roads using horses or oxen.

  15. Teamsters • Forestry workers who brought logs from the roads to the river using horses or oxen.

  16. Company Towns • Towns set up for people and families who worked for a company. • The company often owned everything in the town and families would have to leave if nobody was working at the company anymore.

  17. Company Store • Stores set up by companies that would ‘lend’ its workers items from the store until payday when it would deduct that amount from workers’ wages.

  18. Merchants • People who invested their money to set up a fish selling business. • Merchants often owned stores that operated in the same way as company stores.

  19. Fishers • People who worked on boats owned by merchants.

  20. Independent Fishers • People who fished on their own using their own boats and equipment.

  21. Truck System • When fishers bought all household and fishing equipment from their merchant on credit with the amount deducted from their earnings during the fishing season.

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