Part 9

Quiz for Document P9-5: Kevin Clarke, Outsourcing Around (2004)

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Question 1

President Bill Clinton’s 1993 remarks on the signing of NAFTA called for the retraining in white-collar technology fields of displaced blue-collar manufacturing workers. According to Kevin Clarke, what was happening to these white-collar jobs in the 2000s?A. Educational institutions in the U.S. had failed to educate American workers.
B. Immigrants from Latin America were taking U.S. service jobs.
C. Many white-collar jobs were now also being outsourced to other countries.
D. White-collar service industries in the U.S. were expanding rapidly.

Question 2

Clarke defines economist Joseph Schumpeter’s concept of “creative destruction” asA. creative ways of destroying an enemy’s will to fight.
B. destruction of inefficient humane social values.
C. rapid changes in production that lead to new opportunity and improved wages.
D. replacement of civil government authority with corporate power.

Question 3

What response does Clarke propose as proper to the inevitable process of “creative destruction?”A. Christian mercy and human empathy
B. Enforced law and order
C. Nonviolent action and civil resistance
D. Violence and revolution

Question 4

Social spending on support and educational training for displaced workers, recommended by Clarke, would likely be rejected by those who espousedA. Democratic Party platforms.
B. Green Party ideals.
C. neo-conservative values.
D. socialist doctrines.