Exam 14: Work And Economic Life

The following statement about the U.S.economy that is true is that:

According to Karl Marx,capitalism reduces many people's work to dull,uninteresting tasks,over which workers have no influence or control.He referred to this situation and the feelings it engendered as:

Knitting your own mittens is a form of unpaid labor.

The type of position a worker would most likely be dissatisfied with is a:

Richard freemen and Joel Rogers's Worker Representation and Participation Survey excluded:

The "new" economy in which ideas,information,and forms of knowledge support and sustain innovation and growth is most commonly called the:

The one of the following that provides the best explanation for the decline in membership in labor unions in the United States is the:

Post-fordism is the idea that foreign cars are now more popular than U.S.-built cars.

Compare and contrast the four types of corporate capitalism.How can their rise and/or demise be explained?

The dominant type of corporate capitalism today is:

Work provides _______________,which in turn tends to structure people's psychological makeup and daily lives.

The occupational structure in all industrialized countries has changed substantially since the beginning of the twentieth century.Discuss the potential implications of these changes for both white-collar workers and blue-collar workers based on what you learned in the chapter.

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:

Unemployment is increasingly a standard condition in the U.S.economy because:

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

Work done in exchange for a regular wage or salary is considered:

According to Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh,billions of bits of information stored in computers that track an endless stream of currency exchanges,credit card transactions,insurance plans,and the buying and selling of stocks and bonds make up the global:

Traditionally,union workers have been employed in the manufacturing sector.Recently,this trend has been changing,but successful unionizing of workers has increased among:

The position considered to be in a high-trust system is:

The stage of corporate capitalism based on the practice of corporations owning shares in other firms with interlocking directorates controlling much of the corporate landscape is referred to as: