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What are 2 fudamental turning points in human history?
- Neolithic Agricultural Revolution: 8000 B.C., resources hunted, tools made, ect.
- Industrial Revolution: 1780's, things started enhanceing like work, jobs, family organization, transition from rural to urban life.
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What are 5 factors linked to the post-industrial transformation of the U.S. economy?
- Advance Production Technologies: computers are doing jobs
- Globalization: production, relay on different places in the world, trade (competition)
- Capital Flight: production for a better cost
- Shift from manufactureing to service based economy: manufacturing pays more
- Weakend Unions: decreased over time
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What is Outsourcing?
The practice of corporations of contracting work outside the company and its relatively well-paid workers to companies inside and outside the United States where costs are cheaper
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What is Sunrise Industries?
Industries characterized by increased output and employment.
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What is the impact of the post-industrial transformation of the U.S. economy on the American labor Marker?
Education, Debt, Dual Incomes, Sociological and Psychological Strain
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Explain America's Shrinking Middle Class
- Less than 25k = Increased Slightly 2/3
- Between 25k = Decreased Slightly
- More than 25k = Basically unchanged 1/3
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What is the relationship between wages & productivity?
- Wages have remained stagnant or declined
- while productivitie has risen
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How has the baby boom generation affeccted american society?
Baby Boomers are going to put a large drain on an already miserable existence of health care in the U.S.
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What is the dependency ratio?
The relationship between old-age Social Security recipients and those workers paying Social Security taxes
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Who are the working poor?
Poor people that work full time for an entire year and still remain poor.
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Who are the new poor?
People that have lost their jobs and become very poor
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What are 2 trends that set new immigration apart from past immigration?
- The volume of immigration is relatively large
- The racial landscape and rate of population growth are greatly affected
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What are the settlement patterns of the new migration?
- Asians = west coast
- Mexicans = south west (with other latinos scattered)
- Recent Immigrants = two coasts and southwest
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What are the consequences of the new immigration?
- increasing diversity
- the reaction of the hosts to the new immigrants
- the effects of immigration on the immigrants
- trends
- volumes
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What is Assimilation?
The process by which individuals or groups voluntarily or involuntarily adopt the culture of another group, losing their original identity.
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