What Factor Makes Jobs Precarious in a Factory

question 25

Multiple Choice

What factor makes jobs precarious in a factory?

• A) Employees control the labor process.
• B) Workers are easily fired and replaced.
• C) Customers need lots of emotional support.
• D) Employees who work too fast are shunned.

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Definitions:

Activity-Based Costing

A costing methodology that assigns overhead and indirect costs to specific activities and then to products or services based on their consumption of those activities.

Machine-Hours

A measure of the amount of time machines are run in the production process, often used as a basis for allocating manufacturing overhead costs.

Batches

Quantities or groups of products produced or processed at the same time.

Product Margins

The profit earned on the sale of a product after subtracting the cost associated with its production and sale.