True or False


1	Just as many economists and social scientists predicted in the early 20th century, workers have decreased the amount of time they spend working.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


2	The value of housework and child care have systematically been undervalued because of social programs such as social security and unemployment insurance along with many public policies concerned with marriage and divorce.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


3	A job might be described simply as work in which self-identity and the activity are independent of each other.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


4	It is its potential to be intimately connected to our deepest values that makes the meaning and value of work have important implications for the structure and operation of the workplace.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


5	Happiness, according to the hedonistic interpretation of work, is the enjoyment of cultural activities.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


6	Both the human fulfillment and classical interpretations of the meaning of work believe that work is the primary means for developing human potential.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


7	According to the human fulfillment model, the psychological and social benefits of work do not reduce to merely subjective and personal values.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


8	Karl Marx was sure that industrial capitalism inevitably, necessarily, alienates workers from the product of their work, from the creative process of work, and from their very essence as social creatures.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


9	Both liberals who believe that the ethical assessment of work should be based on how work affects the workers' ability to make free and autonomous decisions about their lives and the human fulfillment school that makes that judgment on the basis of what makes a good meaningful human life are saying essentially the same thing.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


10	The idea that the meaning and value of work is whatever the workers determine that it is simply doesn't challenge in any significant way Bowie's contention that employers have an obligation to provide meaningful work.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE

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