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Common trades and professions

Individual trade unions

Academic tenure

Indefinite academic appointment

Practitioner of accounting or accountancy

Actuarial science

Discipline that applies mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk in the insurance, finance, and other industries

Form of communication for marketing, typically paid for

Advertising research

Study conducted to improve advertising

Aerial advertising

Type of advertisement

Aerospace manufacturer

Company involved in manufacturing aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, and/or spacecraft

Federation of American trade unions

Agrarian society

Community whose economy is based on crops and farmland

Cultivation of plants and animals to provide useful products

Person controlling an aircraft in flight

System of employment

Automotive industry

Organizations involved with motor vehicles

Employee of a bank who deals directly with most customers

Legal status for relief from debts

Person who serves usually alcoholic beverages behind the bar in a licensed establishment

Big-game hunting

Hunting of large animals

Blue-collar worker

Working-class person who performs manual labor

Board of directors

Type of governing body for an organisation

Identification for a good or service

Organization undertaking commercial, industrial, or professional activity

Fluctuation in the degree of utilization of the production potential of an economy

Business networking

Forming professional relationships between people, businesses, or groups

Person involved in activities for the purpose of generating revenue

Capital (economics)

Already-produced durable goods that are used in production of goods or services

Capital gains tax

Tax on investment profits

An individual's journey through learning, work, and other aspects of life

Person who handles the exchanging of money for goods at a store

Celebrity branding

Form of advertising campaign or marketing strategy

Chemical industry

Industry (branch), which is engaged in the manufacturing of chemical products

Person employed to clean

Person that takes care of buildings

White-collar worker who conducts general office tasks

Labour arrangement where the employer must hire unionised members

Clothing industry

Industry encompassing the design, manufacturing, wholesaling and retailing of clothes

Process of getting coal out of the ground

Collective bargaining

Negotiations between employers and a group of employees

Exchange of goods and services

Association or collection of individuals

Competition law

Law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies

Conglomerate (company)

Large company involved in many industries

Process of the building or assembling of a building or infrastructure

Consumption tax

Tax on spending on goods and services

Contingent work

Type of employment relationship involving non-permanent freelance work with payment based on piece work

Cook (profession)

Occupation involving cooking food

Autonomous association of persons or organizations

Corporate governance

Mechanisms, processes and relations by which corporations are controlled and operated

Body of law that applies to the rights, relations, and conduct of persons, companies, organizations and businesses

Tax levied on the profits of companies

Legal entity incorporated through a legislative or registration process

Form of intermittent, unpaid, unfree labour

Pastime or profession that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work

Curriculum vitae

Summary of career

Customer service representative

Agent responsible for handling complaints, processing orders, and communicating services

Deep sea mining

Mineral extraction from the ocean floor

Department store

Retail establishment; building which offers a wide range of consumer goods

Lowering of skill levels by new technology

Controversial marketing strategy in which a party buys products from a parent organisation and sells them directly to customers

Division of labour

Separation of tasks in any system so that participants may specialise

Domestic worker

Person who works within the employer's household

Type of business industry usually conducted over the internet

Economic security

Having stable income or other resources to support a standard of living now and in the foreseeable future

Tradesperson specializing in electrical wiring

Employee benefits

Non-wage compensation provided to employees in addition to normal wages or salaries

Relationship between the employee and the employer

Employment agency

Organization which matches employers to employees

Energy industry

Industries involved in the production and sale of energy

Professional practitioner of engineering and its subclasses

Entrepreneurship

Process of designing, launching and running a new business

Equal pay for equal work

Concept of labor rights that individuals in the same workplace be given equal pay

Escalation clause

Clause in a contract adjusting costs to external factors

Goods tax levied at the moment of manufacture rather than sale

Survey conducted with an individual leaving an organisation

Hunting with a trained bird of prey

Practice of hiring more workers than are needed to perform a given job, or to adopt work procedures which appear pointless, complex and time-consuming merely to employ additional workers

Activity of trying to catch fish

Fishing industry

The economic sector concerned with taking, culturing, processing, preserving, storing, transporting, marketing or selling fish or fish products

Flight attendant

Member of an aircrew

Collective term for diverse businesses that supply much of the world's food

Work people are employed in against their will

Person working in a country other than one of which they are a citizen

Science and craft of managing woodlands

Absence of government restriction on international trade

Fringe benefits tax

Worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur

Strike action in which a substantial proportion of the total labour force in a city, region, or country participates

Process of extracting gold from the ground

Form of placer mining

Golden parachute

Agreement providing significant compensation if someone is fired, such as due to a merger

Profession in sport

Person whose occupation is to cut or style hair

Housekeeper (domestic worker)

Domestic worker responsible for running the household, in charge of housemaids

Searching, pursuing, and killing wild animals

Tax imposed on individuals or entities (taxpayers) that varies with respective income or profits (taxable income).

Tax collected by an intermediary. Indirect taxes are levied (imposed or charged) by government

Industrial relations

Study of the relationship between employers, employees and others

Industrial unionism

Labor union organizing model

Industrial Workers of the World

International labor union

Industry (economics)

Economic branch that produces raw materials, goods, or services

Long television commercial

Informal economy

Economic activity unregulated by government

Inheritance tax

Tax paid by a person who inherits the estate of a natural person who has died

International trade

Exchanges across international borders

Interview for a job

Business agreement to develop, for a finite time, a new entity

Unskilled or skilled worker

Mediates the relationship between workers, employers, trade unions and the government

Involuntary termination of employment of an employee due to business concerns

Limited liability company

US-specific form of a private limited company

Lockout (industry)

Temporary work stoppage or denial of employment initiated by the management of a company during a labor dispute

Management of the flow of resources

Coordinating the efforts of people

Industrial activity producing goods for sale using labor and machines

Market penetration

In marketing, a parameter to show the rate of circulation of a product in its market

Market segmentation

Process of dividing a broad consumer market into sub-groups with shared characteristics

Study and process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to customers

Guidance relationship

Mergers and acquisitions

Type of corporate transaction

Person who migrates to pursue work

Lowest wage which can be paid legally in a state for working

The extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth

Market structure with a single firm dominating the market

Mountaintop removal mining

Form of surface mining that involves the mining of the summit or summit ridge of a mountain

Multinational corporation

Corporation operating in multiple countries

Music in advertising

Music integrated into mass electronic media advertisements to enhance its success

Occupational injury

Bodily damage resulting from working, resulting from exposure to occupational hazards, such as temperature, noise, insect or animal bites, blood-borne pathogens, aerosols, hazardous chemicals, radiation, and occupational burnout

Transnational relocation of business processes in the aim of enhancing efficience

Online advertising

Form of advertising that uses the Internet

Online shopping

Form of electronic commerce

Open-pit mining

Surface mining technique

Contracting internal tasks to an external organization

Parental leave is a family policy measure which an employee can take advantage of for the education of his or her children

Arrangement in which parties agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests

Retirement fund

Program, fund, or scheme that provides retirement income

Perfect competition

Market structure in which firms are price takers for a homogenous product

Single-equation economic model relating wages to unemployment

Form of protest in which people gather outside a place of business

Tradesperson specializing in water and sewage systems

Warranted employee of a police force

Person active in politics

Fixed tax paid by every liable individual

Post-industrial society

Society whose service sector provides more economic value than manufacturing

Pre-industrial society

Societies before industrialization

Principal–agent problem

Conflict of interest when one agent makes decisions on another's behalf

Average measure of the efficiency of production

Profit maximization

Process to determine the highest profits for a firm

When employees share in the company's profits

Person who writes computer software

Project management

Practice of leading the work of a team to achieve goals and criteria at a specified time

Entity owned by a person or a group of people

Tax on property, particularly real estate

Economic policy of restraining trade between states through government regulations

Public limited company

Publicly traded limited liability company

Public–private partnership

Government/private company partnership

Subset of land that has been legally defined and the improvements to it made by human efforts

Process of attracting, selecting and appointing candidates to a job or other organization

City and Commune in O'Higgins, Chile

Business document

Sale of goods and services

Point where a person ceases employment permanently

Revenue service

Government agency responsible for the intake of government revenue, tax administration in some jurisdiction

Remuneration paid by an employer to an employee periodically, rather than based on actual time worked

American guitar-based pop band

Tax paid to a governing body for the sales of certain goods and services

Mining operation extracting rock salt or halite

Salting (union organizing)

Labor union tactic

Screen Actors Guild

American labor union representing film performers (1933-2012)

Office occupation supporting management

Person employed to protect assets

Shift work (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Large indoor shopping center

Large indoor shopping center

Extraction of silver from the ground

Business with less employees or revenue

Social enterprise

Type of organization

Sole proprietorship

Business legally synonymous with its owner

Startup company

Company initiated by an entrepreneur to develop a scalable economic model

State-owned enterprise

Legal entity controlled by a government to undertake commercial activities

Work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work

Large format of grocery store

System involved in supplying a product or service to a consumer

Supply chain management

Management flow of goods and services

Broad category of mining

Workplace that has socially unacceptable working conditions

Goods import or export tax

Method to impose financial charge or other levy upon a taxpayer by a government or functional equivalent

Low "effective" tax rates for foreigners

Tax noncompliance

Range of legal and illegal activities that reduce tax paid

Person who helps others to acquire knowledge, competences or values

Television advertisement

Paid commercial segment on television

Textile manufacturing

The industry which produces textiles

The Work Foundation

British non-profit organisation

Process of extracting tin from the ground

Exchange of goods and services.

Trades Union Congress

Federation of trade unions in England and Wales

Hunting of wild animals for trophies

Topics referred to by the same term

Two-factor theory

Psychological theory of motivation

People without work and actively seeking work

Unemployment benefits

Payments made by authorized bodies to unemployed people

Process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground

Value-added tax

Form of consumption tax

Vending machine

Machine which automatically dispenses products to customers after payment

Wage (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Term describing dependence on wages or a salary

Person who attends to customers by serving them food and drink

Warehouse store

Food and grocery retailer that operates stores geared toward offering deeper discounted prices than a traditional supermarket

Artisan who makes and repairs watches

Tax on an entity's holdings of assets

Hunting of whales

White-collar worker

Social class; person who performs intellectual labor

Work (human activity)

Activities performed as a means of support

Worker cooperative

Cooperative that is owned and self-managed by its workers

Period of time that an individual spends at paid occupational labor

Workweek and weekend

Parts of the week devoted to labor and rest, respectively