GAME GLOSSARY

Blacklisted: to be labeled a troublemaker and unable to get a job; to have one's name on the owner's "do not hire" list

Boarding house: a private home that rents rooms to workers and provides their meals

Calico: a woven cotton fabric usually printed in bright designs

Cholera: an acute infectious disease causing diarrhea and vomiting, often fatal

Company store: a store owned by the factory where employees are required to purchase their goods

Dunping: unloading an excessive amount of goods (such as cloth) into a market at a price below production costs, usually in order to drive competitors out of business

Embargo: a law that prohibits importing certain goods or goods from a certain country

Incorporate: to form a legal business corporation with the authority to sell shares of stock

Machine shop: where machines used for the production of textiles in mills are made or repaired

Mechanic: a general term used to refer to a skilled male worker who knew how to build things, whether they were machines or buildings

Mule spinner: a skilled male spinner who handled a heavy and complex kind of spinning machine called a "mule"

Overseer: the man who was in charge of a room or group of workers in a factory (also used to refer to a man in charge of slaves on a plantation)

Panic: an economic condition of widespread fear that the economy is about to collapse, often causing investors to turn assets quickly into cash

Patent: a legal document issued by the government giving an inventor exclusive right to profit from an invention

Power loom: mechanical device driven by water power which replaced hand looms to weave cloth in a factory

Temperance: against the use of alcoholic beverages, especially to excess

Tenement: a rental apartment building, often in ill-repair

Textiles: cloth products

Turbine: a machine which converts moving water power into mechanical power