When Companies Move Their Production Facilities Around the World to Take

question 12

Multiple Choice

When companies move their production facilities around the world to take advantage of cheaper labor and lower taxes, what do anthropologists call this?

• A) ethnology
• B) increasing migration
• C) time-space compression
• D) flexible accumulation

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Definitions:

Mass-Production

The manufacturing of large quantities of standardized products, often on assembly lines, making goods cheaper and more accessible but also leading to socio-economic changes.

Mass-Culture

A set of cultural values, practices, and goods that are widely shared among a society's population, often spread through mass media.

Great Depression

A severe worldwide economic downturn that lasted from 1929 to the late 1930s, marked by widespread unemployment and poverty.

Stock Market Crash

A sudden and significant decline in the stock market prices, leading to a loss of wealth for investors.