Exam 11: The Economy and Work

What do you think Barbara Ehrenreich would say about efforts to reform welfare, which attempted to move people off welfare rolls and into minimum-wage jobs?

What is a sweatshop?

How has the Information Revolution diminished the importance of place?

Why did Karl Marx believe that workers in capitalist societies experienced alienation? From what, specifically, did he claim that workers were alienated?

What tactics have been used to weaken unions in the United States?

Capitalism and socialism are two examples of political systems throughout the world.

How was the shallow integration of the past different from the deep integration associated with globalization?

Advertising, engineering, marketing, product design, and web design are all examples of ________ work.

"Fordism" is a system characterized by the increasingly efficient mass production of goods. Why is this system called "Fordism"?

Workers in large department stores usually are paid on commission, which means they are in direct competition with their fellow employees. According to Karl Marx, these workers may experience

What is it an example of when office workers hang pictures in their cubicles or waste time daydreaming while on the clock?

In which decade did the Information Revolution begin?

Identify three things from which workers are alienated in an industrial or postindustrial economy, according to Karl Marx.

One of the primary principles of capitalism is

There is some degree of socialism even in the United States. Name three programs that would qualify as socialism in our capitalist society.

In the United Kingdom, the government owns the British Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC, which is the world's largest television and radio broadcasting service. This tells you that the United Kingdom is

"Rogue" agencies posting information on Twitter to make it available to the public is an example of individual resistance to bureaucratic organizations.

________ might be alleviated if more Americans were encouraged to telecommute.

Corporations with decision-making, production, and distribution operations spread all over the world are characteristic of

Barbara Ehrenreich found numerous ways service workers were being exploited in her book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. List and describe three of these.