Chapter 14

What is one advantage of piecework payment over in-kind payment?

Adam Smith argues that money is inherently social because:

Barbara Risman equated gender inequality, in the form of marriage, to:

A system of payment whereby workers are compensated on the basis of a wage not tied to the quality of the raw materials, accidents, or other exigencies in the production process refers to:

On a feudal estate, Bob is the lord, Jim is the vassal, Tom is the serf, and Frank is the knight. Who receives the profits from the agricultural activity on the land

At the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century, a massive transition was propelled by the development of new technologies, including:

According to the textbook, in a capitalist economic system, the price and distribution of goods and services are determined by what?

According to the textbook, what characterized the "new markets" that are part of globalization?

In contrast to Simmel, Karl Marx believed that friendship under capitalism is not possible because:

The rise of large-scale production, the influx of peasants to urban areas to find work, and the rise of a system of wage labor caused the ____________ system to become obsolete in favor of a new system of legal currency.

Postfeminist expectations for family and work today are:

The good thing about a salary, according to Simmel, is that:

Monetization refers to:

Henry Ford was heralded for his generosity and genius when he created a new type of wage system whereby male workers were paid sufficient wages to support a dependent wife and children. What term refers to this type of payment?

Karl has been hired to paint a house blue, but he mixes the color wrong, and it turns out purple instead of blue. Under which wage system(s) would he be responsible for paying for new paint?

During the agricultural revolution, the enclosure movement caused many former serfs to move to cities in search of work and led to the rise of:

Arlie Hochschild argues that many workers seek refuge from (the) ____________ in the ____________.

Attitudes about gender and work became self-confirming myths and enforced women's dependence. The unfair family wage pushed an incentive on women to:

If you are a salaried worker and you miss a day of work, how does your salary change?