Exam 4: Economic Systems

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In "Poverty aWork: Office Work and the Crack Alternative," Bourgois claims thaonly 15 percenosecond generation Puerto Ricans living in New York's Spanish Harlem have ever held a job in the formal economy.

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Some othe women interviewed athe Power River Basin felthatheir physical size gave them an advantage over their male counterparts.

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Gifgiving among family members aChristmas is an example of

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According to Patten in "Malawi Versus the World Bank," the Malawian farmers responded to their inability to grow enough food by seeking work in the country's cities.

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One othe more successful gender identities in a coal mine is the tomboy, defined as a women who

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Division olabor refers to the person or organized group responsible for producing something.

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Gender divisions in the Powder River Basin coal mines are very rigid and make it difficulfor women to work alongside men productively.

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Rank in the coal pits correlates to

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In "Poverty aWork: Office Work and the Crack Alternative," Bourgois notes thamany Puerto Rican men living in Spanish Harlem have aone time or another held normal (nounderground) jobs in New York City's service economy.

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In "Poverty aWork: Office Work and the Crack Alternative," Bourgois notes in an addendum to his article thaprosperity in the 1990s increased the number oPuerto Rican men who sold crack as the price othe drug escalated.

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According to Bourgois in "Poverty aWork: Office Work and the Crack Alternative," the New York underground economy in which many Puerto Rican men work largely consists odirty sweatshop manufacturing jobs.

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In the social universe othe mine, the term 'lady' generally has a negative connotation.

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In "Malawi Versus the World Bank," Patten notes thathe World Bank and the IMF required Malawi to quisubsidizing fertilizer.

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According to Patten in the article "Malawi Versus the World Bank," the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund soughto loan Malawi money in the 1980s until recently because the people there were no longer able to meetheir daily need for food.

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In "Malawi Versus the World Bank," Patten claims thathe goal othe World Bank and IMis to lend poor countries money in order to build more efficiengovernmenagencies concerned with health and the control oHIV/AIDS.

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Othe many stereotypical personas active in the coal mining industry, __________ comprise only a minority othe workforce.

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According to Cronk in "Reciprocity and the Power oGiving," the phrase "Indian giver" arose because North American Indians misunderstood European customs and wanted gifts they gave to colonists to be returned promptly and with interest.

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According to Patten in "Malawi Versus the World Bank," the effecothe World Bank on Malawi was to drive people oftheir land and into cities where they could work in newly established businesses.

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When people buy and sell goods and services on the basis oprice, supply, and demand, we call the process redistributive exchange.

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A good example oreciprocal exchange in Ameri?can society is gifgiving abirthdays.

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