Chapter 11: Industry

1. Since the 1970’s manufacturing jobs in Great Britain have
A) decreased by half
B) increased by half
C) stayed about the same
D) decreased slightly
2. The biggest reason that manufacturing has increasingly relocated to poorer countries is
A) mechanization 
B) lower cost of labor 
C) lower cost of raw materials 
D) none of the above 
3. According to your textbook, the country with the 4th highest total manufacturing output was.
A) China 
B) The United States
C) Japan
D) Germany 
4. Assembly line production is most associated with 
A) Fordism
B) Post-Fordism
C) Creative Destruction 
D) Marxism 
5. Most of the industrial jobs lost in the U.S. from 1990-2020 were eliminated due to
A) Lower cost labor in other countries 
B) Offshoring 
C) Automation
D) Decreased demand 
6. Extracting coal from the ground is an example of which sector of the economy?
A) Primary
B) Secondary
C) Tertiary
D) Industrial
7. Most of the economic growth in the post-industrialized world has been derived from the
A) Primary sector of the economy
B) Secondary sector of the economy
C) Teriary sector of the economy
D) Gig sector of the economy
8. Service economy jobs in which workers primary work as sub-contractors rather than as employees form what has been called the 
A) App economy 
B) Post-Service economy 
C) Service Sector
D) Gig economy
9. The location where goods are transferred from one form of transport to another is called
A) break-of-bulk point
B) bulk gaining
C) bulk reducing
D) transportation node
10. Within a capitalist system, the price of goods over time that consumers pay tend to
A) Increase
B) Decrease
C) Stay the same
D) None of the above