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Chapter 9: The Discarded Factory

1) What is branding?
 

2) What affect has branding had on production?
 

3) What is the Nike model?
 

4) Why have companies moved towards branding?
 
 
 

5) What are free-trade zones, Export Processing Zones (EPZ)?
 
 

6) The author, as major CEOs argue, claims that using Free Enterprise Zones is not “job flight” Why not?
 

7) What is Cavite?
 

8) What are the social characteristics of workers from EPZs?   Why do employers want these types of workers?
 
 
 

9) What are the working conditions for these workers like?  Can they unionize?  Why not?
 
 

10) Why does the government champion EPZs?  Is there any evidence for this reason?  If not, than why do governments agree to them?
 

11) Why would workers allow themselves to be employed under those conditions?

Chapter 10: Threats and Temps
 

1) Describe the growth in service work in the US
 

2) Where are many U.S companies putting their money?  How does this affect U.S. employees?
 

3) How do U.S. companies respond to labor demands?
 
 

4) Why do U.S. employers argue they need to hire part-time employees?
 
 

5)   Workers are affected by the increase in use of interns, part-time labor, contract workers – how so?