The most common contemporary technology for worker control is________.
a. lie detectors
b. drug tests
c. telephone taps
d. the computer
Question 2Faludi's mention of a vast male-run orphanage where young men are watched by surrogate fathers,
a. means college.
b. is a comparison to homes for boys orphaned in the Great Depression.
c. alludes to the work world.
d. means the army.
Question 3Scientific management emphasized specialization, which had the effect of________.
a. making workers susceptible to automation
b. increasing hourly wages
c. enlarging the worker's skills
d. diminishing the meaninglessness of work
Question 4According to Eitzen and Baca-Zinn, ________ is central to the human experience.
a. profit
b. hedonism
c. work
d. family
Question 5According to economist Lester Thurow, ________.
a. capitalism is not concerned with how wealth and income are distributed
b. a concern for fairness does exist
c. those who do not produce are offered compensations
d. the market does not compensate those who do produce
Question 6The hierarchical arrangement of the workplace controls workers________.
a. by increasing automation
b. by holding out the possibility of advancement for obedient rule followers
c. by using lie detectors and psychological testing
d. by increasing worker autonomy
Question 7Environmental degradation will tend to increase when what conditions prevail?
a. Dependent countries are desperate for foreign capital.
b. Dependent countries need jobs provided by foreign capital.
c. Economies become postindustrial.
d. all of the above
e. a and b above
Question 8Susan Faludi began her research on The American Man
a. by surveying male workers on their education, income, and occupational status.
b. assuming that men's softer side was being societally suppressed.
c. with the belief that men's need to control was the source of gender inequality.
d. in order to demonstrate that men and women were equal.
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