Identify which of the following is not true of how the labor market reinforces racial, ethnic, and gender divisions
a. White males dominate in the upper tier of the primary sector.
b. White females dominate in the lower tier of the primary sector.
c. Blacks and Hispanics predominate in the secondary sector.
d. Government enforces quotas that move employees out of the secondary and into the primary sector.
d
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Evangelical feminists, also called Biblical feminists or Christian feminists, believe the Bible teaches that
a. wives should be submissive to their husbands. b. husbands should be submissive to their wives. c. husbands and wives should be mutually submissive to each other. d. neither husbands nor wives should be submissive.
The feminist perspective maintains that traditional gender roles are not: a. socially constructed
b. created as oppressive conditions and barriers to opportunity. c. the result of biological conditions. d. created to maintain the power of men over women.
Define contingent work and identify the role subcontracting often plays in contingent work. Also describe the three major types of unemployment
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Social scientists Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen identified a group of Americans who are consistently overlooked by government policies. They call this group the near poor because these families
a. earn a middle-class income but can only afford homes in or adjacent to poor neighborhoods. b. lost almost all of their inherited wealth during the 2007–2009 recession. c. earn middle-class incomes but spend more than they make. d. have earnings that put them above the poverty line but below the middle class.