In the late 1800s, why might a potential new factory employee refuse to sign a yellow-dog contract? because yellow-dog contracts required an employee and his family to live in a company town
O because yellow-dog contracts required employees to report back to employers with
any information regarding labor
union organization
® because signing a yellow-dog contact labeled an employee as
a scab and made him or her a potential target of union
violence
• because promising not to join a union would strip the employee of his ability to protest workplace injustices with the
support of an organized workers' group