The Economy and Work — Quiz

Autor, Levy, and Murnane's 2003 analysis predicted that computerization would produce which pattern in the labor market?

Harry Braverman argued that the primary purpose of deskilling workers was to:

Mark Granovetter's concept of 'embeddedness' refers to which of the following?

According to Karl Polanyi, what was distinctive about the 'self-regulating market' that emerged in nineteenth-century Britain?

The 'Fordist compromise' of the post-World War II period was characterized by which combination of features?

Western and Rosenfeld (2011) estimated that union decline accounted for approximately what share of the rise in male wage inequality in the United States between 1973 and 2007?

Which institutional feature is most associated with the maintenance of high union density in Scandinavian countries?

Alex Rosenblat's study of Uber drivers identified which distinctive feature of platform work?

Explain what Michael Burawoy meant by the 'production of consent' on the shop floor, and why this concept challenged Braverman's deskilling thesis.

Why does the comparative evidence from Scandinavia and Germany complicate the argument that union decline in the United States was an inevitable consequence of globalization and technological change?

What is the legal and economic significance of classifying platform workers as independent contractors rather than employees, and what has been the pattern of legal responses across different jurisdictions?

Drawing on at least four of the theorists or empirical studies covered in this topic, evaluate the claim that 'the economy is not a natural system but a set of institutions produced by law, norms, corporate organization, and political choice.' What are the implications of this claim for how we should think about economic inequality and the future of work?