Child Labor - Any form of work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful., Entrepreneur - A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses., Industrialization - The development of industries and factories for the machine production of goods, Urbanization - The rapid growth of cities; a movement of people from rural to urban areas, Factory - A building or group of buildings in which goods are manufactured., Manufacturing - The process of making a raw material into a finished product; especially in large quantities, or in a factory, Exploitation - The act of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work., Assembly Line - A production method used in factories that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks, The Cottage Industry - Goods and products were manufactured in people’s homes and on their properties instead of in factories., Labor - Work, especially hard work, Labor Union - An organization formed by workers to protect their rights and interests, Wages/Income - an amount of money paid to an employee at a specified rate (per hour, per week, per month, per year), Working Conditions - The environment of a work place -- working hours, safety, wages, etc., Tenements - Overcrowded, urban apartment buildings that served as housing for poor factory workers, Reform - To change for the better, Progressives - A group of reformers who worked to solve problems caused by industrialization and urbanization in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Muckrakers - journalists - reporters - who worked to expose the bad things happening in society,

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