Exam 3: Repeat Performance: Globalization Through Time and Space

The majority of workers in the global market

According to the International Monetary Fund ,a nation's social inequality can be impacted by

The poor conditions found in poorer countries are due solely to multinational corporations.

It has been argued that while core countries have exploited peripheral countries,they nonetheless leave the residents more educated and more financially stable than those in core countries.

An example of a core nation is

Multinationals have benefitted from the lifting of trade restrictions by all except one of the following?

People working in Kiberia,a squatter community in Africa,work in jobs or businesses in the informal sector where there is no government control or taxes.

Discuss the five most negative conditions associated with sweatshops.What are some of the outcomes of unionization and anti-sweatshop movements that have attempted to deal with these negative conditions?

In China,because business and political leaders work together,factory workers are often

Hegemonic despotism is when companies control operations by threatening workers with down-sizing or plant closure.

What is the role of top-level collusion in multinationals and the political leadership in countries like China,India,and Mexico?

Of the countries listed below,which one has not established hegemonic control?

Multinationals in developing countries provide no positive outcomes for workers in those countries.

Sweatshops have been accused of

The four key areas of world systems include all but which of the following?

Squatters are people who stay on land that does not belong to them.

Sweatshops are usually accused of difficult and dangerous work conditions but research has shown this to be untrue.

A fabriola is a squatter community in Brazil.

Hegemony refers to a situation where one country uses its power and influence to impose its rules and goals globally in the economic,political,military,diplomatic,and cultural realms.

According to Doob,a supplier factory for Reebok in India punished workers who made mistakes on the job by