Exam 8: From Field, Mine, and Factory

The city council is divided on the subject of tough new environmental controls for manufacturing enterprises.The opponents of the plan say it creates a "bad business climate." The opponents are supporting:

Craft workers

The Pacific Northwest of the U.S.and the Gulf Coast of Texas have which of these economic characteristics in common?

What does the text say about the decline of manufacturing jobs in North America?

Why did Japan take the lead in steel production? All of the following are reasonable explanations EXCEPT:

Precision production operators are considered to be

Which of the following is NOT true? As farm productivity has risen,

Paper entrepreneurialism refers to

Which of the following characterizes occupational communities?

Some machine operators and assemblers are well-paid and others have low pay with poor benefits.What explains this difference?

Employment losses in American textiles are due to all of the following EXCEPT:

What does the success of the mini-mills suggest?

How is the "declining middle" related to the reduced proportion of jobs in manufacturing?

Machine operators and assemblers are also called

Occupational solidarity is reinforced if the occupation is:

The number of small farms owned by blacks in the South decreased because

The Bureau of Labor Statistics distinguishes between unskilled and semiskilled work in terms of

What is paper entrepreneurialism?

Aquaculture refers to

What characteristic(s) of work give craft workers relative security from layoffs?