Exam 14: Work and Economic Life

What are portfolio workers?

A temporary work stoppage by a group of employees who want to express a grievance or enforce a demand is called:

An activity that uses effort for the production of goods and services is called.

It is true with respect to global outsourcing that:

What was the name of the system developed by Frederick Winslow Taylor, in which mass production is tied to the cultivation of mass markets?

The dominant type of corporate capitalism today is:

What is Fordism? How is it connected to unions and collective bargaining agreements? Why do most sociologists think it broke down in the 1970s?

Compare and contrast the five types of corporate capitalism (family, managerial, welfare, institutional, and global). How can their rise and/or demise be explained?

Capitalism is characterized as:

According to Freeman and Rogers's study, what U.S. workers want most from their jobs is:

The stage of corporate capitalism that is dominated by large firms run by individual entrepreneurs or their family members and passed on to their descendants is:

Work plays an important role in structuring people's lives. Yet in the nineteenth century, Karl Marx argued that work in the modern industrial society (capitalism) is inherently alienating. Discuss the significance of his concept in light of more recent research on work and the economy in the late modern society.

Jobs that are set by management, are geared toward machines, and give workers little control are referred to as being:

Walmart designs very little of what it sells and produces next to nothing. List one economic benefit and one economic negative to this model of business.

Work has become divided into a number of different occupations in which people specialize. Sociologists refer to this as:

According to your textbook, the industry that is one of the most highly globalized in terms of production is the ________ industry.

From a sociological perspective, women who are homemakers:

If someone is 16 years of age or older and actively looking for work but not able to find it, they are included in the:

Harnessing science to machinery to achieve greater productive efficiency is known as:

Frederick Winslow Taylor invented the moving assembly line.