Question 1

Labor markets are "socially regulated" in ways that:

Accepted Answer

A)  Are a natural outcome of a capitalist system 
B)  Can be contested 
C)  Equitable and just 
D)  All of the above 
E)  None of the above

Question 2

The characteristics of the labor market are determined by its ___________________ in geographically-specific social institutions.

Accepted Answer

A)  Embeddedness 
B)  Trust 
C)  Detachment 
D)  All of the above 
E)  None of the above

Question 3

By using temporary staffing agencies, employers avoid a direct ________________ relationship with the people working for them, and can hire and fire such workers at will.

Accepted Answer

A)  Contractual 
B)  Personal 
C)  Binding 
D)  All of the above 
E)  None of the above

Question 4

Provide three concrete examples of how labor terms and conditions may be impacted as a result of interplace competition among workers. Can these impacts be regarded as either positive or negative?

Accepted Answer

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Question 5

Interplace competition among workers fosters a progressive ___________________ of labor terms and conditions.

Accepted Answer

A)  Scaling-up 
B)  Ratcheting-down 
C)  Strengthening 
D)  All of the above 
E)  None of the above

Question 6

Discuss four examples of how a labor market can be "socially regulated."

Accepted Answer

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Question 7

In China alone, internal migrants (from rural to urban areas and between regions) are estimated to number around:

Accepted Answer

A)  1 billion 
B)  150 million 
C)  20 million 
D)  5 million 
E)  500 thousand

Question 8

If governments provide attractive pay and benefits, then private-sector employers will have to ____________________ in order to attract talent.

Accepted Answer

A)  Enact legislation 
B)  Do the same 
C)  Cut worker's salaries 
D)  All of the above 
E)  None of the above

Question 9

In general, the geographic mobility of capital has __________________ over the last few decades.

Accepted Answer

A)  Increased 
B)  Decreased 
C)  Reached an equilibrium point 
D)  All of the above 
E)  None of the above

Question 10

Labor markets are essentially:

Accepted Answer

A)  Natural outcomes of a capitalist system 
B)  Outside the scope of government intervention 
C)  Comparable between countries 
D)  All of the above 
E)  None of the above

Question 11

Labor laws enacted by governments include:

Accepted Answer

A)  Standards for health and safety in the workplace 
B)  The details of pension schemes 
C)  The rules governing the collective organization of labor in trade unions 
D)  All of the above 
E)  None of the above

Question 12

Informal, nonmarket work activities include:

Accepted Answer

A)  Childcare 
B)  Part-time work 
C)  Freelance work 
D)  All of the above 
E)  None of the above

Question 13

Organizing worker activism across localities prevents different groups of workers from being _______________________, and it enables more resources to be tapped when national and international organizations are involved.

Accepted Answer

A)  Re-assigned 
B)  Laid off 
C)  Played off against each other 
D)  All of the above 
E)  None of the above

Question 14

The single largest employer in almost every territory around the world is:

Accepted Answer

A)  Telecommunications companies 
B)  Car manufacturers and heavy industry 
C)  The Information Technology industry 
D)  The government or the public sector 
E)  Retail shops

Question 15

Interplace competition among workers enables mobile capital to seek out the best rates of return, a process sometimes known as the:

Accepted Answer

A)  "Scaling up of corporate capital" 
B)  "Race to the top" 
C)  "Race to the bottom" 
D)  All of the above 
E)  None of the above

Question 16

Labor geography is a specific field that seeks to understand how workers exert ______________ in the face of the economic structures around them.

Accepted Answer

A)  Agency 
B)  Compliance 
C)  Legal frameworks 
D)  All of the above 
E)  None of the above

Question 17

Control over access to trades and professions is a specific form of local labor market _________________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Regulation 
B)  Decentralization 
C)  Flexibility 
D)  Deregulation 
E)  Sustainability

Question 18

The term lean production has been used to describe the nature of the production system in contexts where employers:

Accepted Answer

A)  Attempt to constrain the activities of unions within the workplace 
B)  Insist on workplace bargaining and dispute resolution as opposed to collective bargaining at larger spatial scales 
C)  Push for one-union rather than multi-union workplaces 
D)  All of the above 
E)  None of the above

Question 19

"Worker internationalism" refers to:

Accepted Answer

A)  The drive for all workers to gain valuable international experience in an increasingly globalized job market 
B)  Worker activism coordinated at the international scale to try and tackle the global reach of firms and capital 
C)  National regulatory policies aimed at deregulating the immigration barriers to temporary foreign workers 
D)  All of the above 
E)  None of the above

Question 20

Temporary foreign workers often have ____________________ citizens of the countries in which they are working.

Accepted Answer

A)  Fewer rights than 
B)  More rights than 
C)  Comparable rights to 
D)  Equivalent status to 
E)  Equivalent wages to

Exam 6: Labor Power: Can Workers Shape