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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