Describe the differences that workers in union and nonunion workplaces experience and indicate why union membership has declined over the years.

What will be an ideal response?


Unions provide higher wages, job protections, better health and retirement benefits. Union retirees usually are provided with health benefits as well. Unions have contributed to advancing salary, pension programs, and health care in nonunion workplaces as companies offer competitive benefit packages in the hope of thwarting union interest and activity by employees.

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A physician treated Andronious Onassis because he initially presented with paralysis and

loss of sensation on the left side of his body; blindness and deafness were also reported. After a completed, and comprehensive medical work-up there was no evidence of any disease process. Andronious’ symptoms suggest:

a) Conversion disorder b) Factitious disorder c) Dissociative identity disorder d) Illness anxiety disorder

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Development of the aging policy in the United States has been influenced by the contradicting values of individual and social responsibility

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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What did Franz Boas find in his study of the head shape of immigrants?

A) The head shape of second-generation immigrants of different groups were more similar to each other than to their parents, indicating some influence of the environment on head shape. B) Children’s head shapes were almost identical to their parents’, indicating that head shape is a highly heritable trait. C) There is no relationship to either biology or to the environment in terms of head shape. D) Variation in head shape is greater among Italian immigrants than among German immigrants.

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