Exam 8: Class

Executives of branches of foreign-owned firms operating in Canada are known as the extraneous elite.

What field is NOT included in the main principal of federal measures?

Statistics Canada's "Low-Income Cut-Off" (LICO) is based on the percentage of income that any individual or family spends on specific aspects of daily life.What aspects of daily life is the LICO based on?

The Social Credit Party pioneered hospital and medical insurance at the provincial level in Saskatchewan.

Which category best describes the "working class"?

The Largest union in Canada is the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)

What are some of the significant differences between the "old" and the "new" middle class?

Collective bargaining is protected by the freedom of association clause in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

The Liberal government introduced the Unemployment Act in 1940.

The Canadian social safety net reached its height in the 1960s.

Which statement best describes the position of state-centred theorists with regard to class-consciousness in Canada?

What is NOT usually a demand of the corporate elite?

Class-consciousness in Canada is weakest among the new middle class.

Within the apparatus of government, what is often seen as a lobby for big business?

List five suggestions for how governments could improve the lot of the poor.

Why are the corporate elite thought to wield so much political power in Canada?

Even though the House of Commons passed a resolution in 1989 to eliminate child poverty in Canada by 2000, the number of children living in poverty increased by 50 percent during the 1990s.

Explain the term "corporate welfare."

Since 2004, approximately what percentage of union members have been women?

Karl Marx divided society in a capitalist economy into two separate classes.What did he call these two classes?