Exam 13: Work and the Economy

Growing competition between multinational corporations has led big corporations to cut costs by building more and more branch plants in:

Outright ownership of a company by a second company in another industry is a way that corporations may be linked.Interlocking directorates are another.Interlocking directorates are formed when an individual sits on the board of directors of two or more non-competing companies.

The specialization of work tasks is commonly called:

Governments that intervene in the economy much more than in the United States but less than the USSR are called:

____ is the labor market composed disproportionately of a large number of women and minorities,particularly African and Hispanic Americans.Employees tend to be unskilled and lack higher education.

The proportion of part-time workers in the United States labor force ____ between 1957 and 1996.

Nearly all humans lived in nomadic tribes until about ____.

One of the problems with the analysis of work by Braverman and Zuboff is that they:

A group of workers who organize to advance and protect their own interests is called:

Most economic analysts divide the economy into three main sectors.Which of the following is NOT one of these sectors?

Charlie Chaplin's 1929 movie,Modern Times,was a humorous critique of the factory work of his time.The film is interesting because it suggests that:

____ specify the length of time one must serve in a given position before being allowed to move up in the organization.

When oil supplies are threatened by hostile foreign governments or regimes,the United States has been willing to go to war.This demonstrates the lengths to which governments will go to:

The amount of goods or services produced for every hour worked is known as:

In today's global economy,it is possible to compete using new technology and more efficient work organization to replace workers,deskill jobs,and employ low-cost labor.This approach is called: