Which of the following is not a term for work that takes place outside the formal paid employment sector ?

A. The casual economy
B. The parallel economy
C. The black economy
D. The informal economy

How do industrial sociologists characterize Fordism and Taylorism ?

A. High risk systems
B. High trust systems
C. Low trust systems
D. Low risk systems

There are some important gender inequalities in paid employment and the chapter identifies three of these Which one of the following is not one of the three ?

A. The division of household labor
B. Occupational segregation
C. The wage gap in favor of men
D. Women’s concentration in part-time jobs

The term informal economy is used to describe ?

A. Work where no money changes hands
B. The activities of small businesses
C. Transactions outside the sphere of regular employment
D. Organizations with less rigid rules and procedures

Which of these types of industrial conflict is the odd one out ?

A. Sabotage
B. Strike
C. Overtime ban
D. Work to rule (working only ones contracted hours noting more or less)

In larger groups each person has ?

A. Less time to speak
B. More points of view to absorb
C. A more elaborate structure within which to function
D. All of the above

Who is most closely associated with the view that the equal and impartial treatment of each case is a strength of bureaucracies ?

A. Michel foucault
B. Paul gay
C. Zygmunt bauman
D. Robert michels

The iron law of oligarchy refers to_____________?

A. Regimes that use repression against their population
B. The exclusion of women from the highest levels of politics
C. The tendency for power inevitably to flow towards top
D. The legal system of the former communist countries

Which of these is a feature of the Japanese style of management arrangements ?

A. Merging of work and private lives
B. Job security
C. Group-oriented production
D. All of the above

Which of these is not a feature of an ideal type bureaucracy according to Weber ?

A. A clear-cut hierarchy of authority
B. Co-ownership among all workers of the material resource with which they operate
C. Fixed salaries associated with each role
D. Written rules governing conduct