Question 1

What changes in the economy would be associated with travel agents hiring inmates in minimum-security prisons to take calls and schedule vacations for customers?

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A)   the increasingly socialist features of the American economy
B)   the Industrial Revolution
C)   the growth of information technology
D)   the rise of capitalism

Question 2

What is a transnational corporation? Why are transnational corporations especially influential in shaping the world of work and the economy today?

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A transnational corporation is a large c...

Question 3

What effect did the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 have on unions?

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A)   It gave unions greater power.
B)   It prohibited government workers from unionizing.
C)   It instituted limits on secondary strikes and boycotts.
D)   It made unions illegal.

Question 4

Describe two advantages and two disadvantages of telecommuting.

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Advantages of telecommuting:
1. Flexibil...

Question 5

Are things like contingent work and volunteerism (Third Sector labor) just other ways for corporations or organizations to exploit workers? Do they offer workers freedom from bureaucracy and choice in terms of volunteer opportunities? Define these concepts and support your answer with facts on globalization.

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Contingent work and volunteerism, also k...

Question 6

In 2008 and 2009, the Obama administration's United States government initiated a large-scale economic bailout of the banking and auto industries. The government invested enormous amounts of money and, as a result, became the majority shareholder in some corporations. According to the text, this means that the United States

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A)   is an example of pure capitalism.
B)   is a mostly capitalist nation, but it also has a degree of socialism in government subsidies to businesses.
C)   had a socialist economy under President Barack Obama.
D)   has always been primarily socialist, so the bailout is nothing new.

Question 7

Resistance strategies relate to the variety of ways in which individuals and groups cope with their working conditions.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

A benefit of telecommuting is that

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A)   it draws more people to large urban areas.
B)   it encourages workers to keep a rigid work schedule.
C)   businesses get increased productivity and fewer sick days.
D)   it makes it easier for workers to brainstorm and share ideas.

Question 9

Describe three ways in which the rise of the industrial economy increased levels of stratification by class, race, and gender.

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Whites owned the means of prod...

Question 10

What is it called when nations compete to attract transnational corporations by undercutting their citizens' wages or offering tax incentives?

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A)   collective resistance strategies
B)   the collective distribution of goods and services
C)   the race to the bottom
D)   postindustrial union bargaining

Question 11

________ is/are the technological development MOST associated with the Information Revolution.

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A)   The jet airplane
B)   The microchip
C)   Spreadsheets and email
D)   Container ships

Question 12

Donald Roy's classic study of the workplace called "Banana Time" showed that

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A)   knowledge workers need more coffee breaks than service workers do.
B)   communities of coping emerge with co-workers during coffee breaks.
C)   telecommuting will destroy the sense of community among co-workers.
D)   play emerges in even the most harsh and strenuous work environments.

Question 13

In 2005, teaching assistants at the University of Oregon went on strike. Which aspect of their job made it easier for them to strike than most American workers?

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A)   The public is much more sympathetic to academic workers.
B)   They have better contracts.
C)   They have more cultural capital, and therefore can better strategize about how to make a strike succeed.
D)   Their jobs cannot be moved overseas.

Question 14

Beyond just money, the economy is about

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A)   the people who are most important to an individual's sense of self.
B)   the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
C)   encouraging cooperation over competition.
D)   rituals and beliefs that divide the world into the sacred and the profane.

Question 15

Some for-profit higher education institutions receive a large proportion of tuition payments via government grants and loans. These institutions may often attempt to enroll as many students as possible, regardless of their actual preparation for college. Thus, many suggest that for-profit higher education institutions are benefiting from a version of

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A)   socialism.
B)   knowledge work.
C)   outsourcing.
D)   corporate welfare.

Question 16

Which of the following examples highlights the autonomy experienced by knowledge workers such as those who work at Google?

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A)   They often have the freedom to take breaks when they choose.
B)   Everyone is their "own boss."
C)   Google employees don't work under a contract system and are free to come and go as they like.
D)   They can start and stop on projects whenever they like.

Question 17

Barbara Ehrenreich explored some of the issues of power and service work in her book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not)  Getting By in America (2001) . As research for the book, Ehrenreich took minimum-wage service jobs as a waitress, a hotel maid, and a Walmart employee. What was her main finding?

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A)   She found that jobs that gave opportunities to be paid "under the table" were better for individual economic stability.
B)   She found that service workers often worked three jobs to make ends meet.
C)   She found that service workers in these types of jobs are likely to be exploited in a number of ways.
D)   She found that service workers' families suffered the most due to their absence.

Question 18

________ might be made worse if more people were encouraged to telecommute.

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A)   Poverty
B)   Intellectual property theft
C)   Cancer and other new health problems
D)   Alienation and loneliness

Question 19

How are strictly controlled workers within bureaucracies different from robots?

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A)   Human workers need forms of upkeep.
B)   Human workers can resist and undermine the bureaucratic restraints that limit their autonomy.
C)   Human workers are more reliable.
D)   Human workers are cheaper.

Question 20

What are networks of corporations, product designers and engineers, manufacturing firms, distribution channels, and consumer outlets that create products called?

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A)   assembly lines
B)   worker co-ops
C)   commodity chains
D)   runaway shops

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