Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Sociologists refer to people coming together in organized and spontaneous demonstrations as “collective action.”
2. Given its long history of valuing work, the United States welcomed the first labor unions and attempts to organize workers.
3. Sinclair’s The Jungle and Norris’s The Octopus exposed dangerous working conditions in meat packing and railroad building.
4. The Great Depression of the 1930s meant the end of most U.S. labor unions.
5. Organized labor’s influence in national elections has continued to grow.
1. True
2. False
3. True
4. False
5. False
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