Manufacturing based on assembly line techniques and high wages, and reliant upon mass consumption, is known as
A) Fordism.
B) Toyotaism.
C) Reaganomics.
D) Chryslerism.
E) just-in-time manufacturing.
Flexible production, distribution and marketing systems are specifically associated with
A) Fordism.
B) Neo-Fordism.
C) Reaganomics.
D) maquiladoras.
E) the trickle-down theory.
The global assembly line refers to consumer goods that are made
A) with raw materials, components, labor, and manufacture from around the world.
B) in one country and designed to be marketed and sold around the world.
C) with capital invested by people, businesses and banks from around the world.
D) with the goal of employing as many people in the periphery as possible.
E) in factories that are sited on both sides of an international border.
Of the following, which are properly considered propulsive industries?
A) department and grocery stores
B) local mom and pop businesses
C) shipbuilding and automobile manufacturing plants
D) community libraries and hospitals
E) both local mom and pop businesses and community libraries and hospitals
Growth poles
A) work as part of government policies to encourage cumulative causation.
B) emerge through the forces of supply and demand.
C) succeed based on the concept of comparative advantage.
D) rely on the international division of labor.
E) are a consequence of core-periphery relations.
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