- affirmative action
- active efforts by government or businesses that give special rights to minorities in hiring, promotion, or access to education to make up for past discrimination
- collective bargaining
- negotiations between unions and a firm or firms
- discrimination
- actions based on the belief that members of a certain group or groups are in some way inferior solely because of a factor such as race, gender, or religion
- labor union
- an organization of workers that negotiates with employers over wages and working conditions