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1. Which of the following was made illegal by the Taft-Hartley Act?

a. Exclusive representation.

b. Secondary boycotts.

c. Employers publicly expressing their anti-union views.

d. Yellow dog contracts.

e. Right-to-work laws.

2. The key distinguishing feature of the critical industrial relations school of thought is that:

a. There is a unity of interests between employers and workers.

b. Employers are workers want the same things.

c. Workers cannot be treated as any other commodity to be bought and sold in a marketplace.

d. Labor markets are essentially competitive markets that need a small amount of guidance from governments.

e. There is an inherent conflict of interest between labor and management that extends to the very social order of society whereby some classes of individuals are better off than others.

3. According to the mainstream economics view, the solution to any past or present "labor problem" is

a. making workers the owners of their companies

b. government regulation

c. more competition

d. socialism

e. unions

4. Toward the end of the 1800s, monopolies had controlled and taken over many American industries. Which of the following pieces of legislation was designed to break up such monopolies?

a. Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890

b. The Clayton Act of 1914

c. The Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932

d. The Wagner Act of 1935

e. The Free Market Act of 1899