Student Study Guide

This outstanding study supplement provides students with a detailed guide to the important material in each chapter. The Student Study Guide includes chapter objectives and application questions and exercises. Answers for the questions and exercises are included in the back of the Study Guide allowing students to check their work. This not only helps the students review their progress, but it also can extend your classroom lectures with analysis, problem-solving and synthesis of material. It attempts to simulate laboratory exercises and discussion sessions.

Because the existing study guide has not been revised, please use the new material listed below with the 6th Edition Updated textbook.

Chapter 9

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8. Summarize the nature, operational structure, and growing economic importance of transnational corporations (TNCs).

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4. By the late 1990s, 80 percent of the U.S. non-farm employment was involved in which type of activity:

  1. quaternary
  2. quinary
  3. secondary
  4. tertiary

7. The industrial core of Japan is:

  1. Kitakyushu
  2. Kobe-Osaka
  3. Nagoya
  4. Tokyo-northern Kyushu

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11. The former manufacturing dominance of the U.S. eastern seaboard was lost to the

  1. Midwest
  2. Gulf-Coast-Texas district
  3. U.S. – Mexican frontera
  4. Southeast

14. The industrial policies of Eastern Europe during the post-war Marxist period

  1. maintained the region’s traditional pre-war connections with Western Europe’s economy.
  2. were tied to regional economic plans imposed by the Soviet Union.
  3. promoted strong unionized labor forces
  4. created highly efficient industrial districts newly build on pre-war manufacturing sites

19. Approximately what percentage of the world’s nonagricultural paid workers is employed by transnational corporations:

  1. 3 percent
  2. 5 percent
  3. 10 percent
  4. 20 percent

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