Deck 16: A: Work and the Political Economy

Question 1

Secondary sector manufacturing jobs peaked around midcentury and made up approximately 40 percent of the workforce.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Today farmers make up roughly 2 percent of the Canadian workforce,which suggests that the tertiary sector peaked around the nineteenth century.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Jobs that transform raw materials into consumer goods are considered part of the primary sector.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Marx's analysis of how workers become alienated from the fruits of their labour relates well to Durkheim's discussion of anomie.

Question 5

Participatory democracy refers to a system that requires citizens to be personally involved in decision making through open and engaged debate and discussion.

Question 6

Some argue that bureaucracy has become the dominant organizational form in contemporary society.

Question 7

As in the case of power and responsibilities in the Canadian provinces,the territories (Yukon,Northwest Territories,and Nunavut)have jurisdiction over land and natural resources.

Question 8

Today,advanced industrial societies are primarily focused on manufacturing products.

Question 9

A post-structuralist theorist is most likely to analyze the category of "problem employee" as an exertion of power.

Question 10

Approximately half of Canadian workers belong to a labour union today.

Question 11

Canada's electoral system is based on proportional representation.

Question 12

Political economy is defined as the endeavour to gain and maintain control of the state apparatus.

Question 13

Capitalism is a system based on private ownership and sharing of resources.

Question 14

Provincial governments have the ability to make new criminal laws.

Question 15

The emergence of inequality is associated with the accumulation of animals.