Economic Periods
Economy based on hunting and gathering, subsistence farming, only producing what you need when needed to survive, and a strong family and community based economy.
Traditional Economy
What is it called when companies allow their employees to work from home or out of the office?
Remote Work
What is a wage(salary)
The money a person earns from working (sometimes a set wage and sometimes an hourly or daily based wage)
economic system such as indigenous and rural communities focusing on survival, hunting and gathering, and family/community based life.
Traditional Economy
This is an animated film featuring ants that are exploited by grasshoppers, illustrating labor exploitation and class struggle.
What is A Bugs Life?
Economic revolution that saw rise of factories and wage labor, mass urbanization and city living, max productivity followed by inequality and harsh labor conditions, and the first unions and labor movements.
Industrial Revolution
What is the name of the work for people that do community service, volunteer work, or stay at home parenting (essentially working for free)
Unpaid/Volunteer Work
What is unemployment
What is the name of the economy called when nations implement parts of capitalism and socialism to create a economy using the beneficial parts of both systems, such as the UK and Canada
Mixed Economy
An animated kids movie that critiques the use of resource exploitation, consumerism, and environmental economics.
What is The Lorax?
This economic revolution saw the rise of Automation and digital technology reducing the need for manual labor, an increase in knowledge based jobs and the service sector, the increase in corporate life and influence, and the beginning of flexible, remote, and digital work.
Information/ Post-Industrial Revolution
What is it called when when companies switch from human labor to the use of technology, machinery, and robotics to produce, assemble, organize, and ship goods and products.
Automation
What is minimum wage
The minimum amount of money an employer is legally required to pay workers per hour
What economic system has government controlled industries and resources, State made economic decisions(what to produce, how much, and what cost), equal wealth distribution, rationed goods, and govt provided housing and healthcare.
Socialist/Command Economy
This is a show that explores poverty, informal labor, and what it takes to survive as a lower working class family in Chicago.
This economic revolution shows the switch from hunting and gathering to the start of organized farming and animal domestication, was the beginning of specialized trades(ex farmers, traders, builders), and allowed for population growth and trade networks do to surplus in food and resources.
Agrarian Revolution
What is the name for the work trend when people only work when needed or are on a temporary flexible schedule (usually through digital platforms or self employed)
Gig Workers
What is a labor contract
A formal written agreement between an employer and worker about wages and conditions
What economic system is profit driven, with the ability to create and own a business, supply and demand based, stock market, economic standard and prices set through competition, and mostly privatized healthcare, housing, and college.
Capitalist/Market Economy
Set on a train divided by class, this is a dystopian thriller exploring themes of economic inequality, power, and rebellion
What is Snowpiercer?
Define Economic Periods
An era characterized by economic structure, forms of production, and work and labor trends. Often related to the common work, trade, and consumption at the time, and marked by economic and social change.
What is it called when large companies create and design products in their home nation but then source, produce, and assemble their products in other nations for reasons such as lower costs and less regulations.
Globalization
What is workplace discrimination
The unequal treatment of workers based on gender, race, or other factors
Define economic systems
How a society organizes and coordinates the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, and how prices and wages are set or determined.
This is a film that dissects the 2008 financial crisis, showing the deregulation and greed that led to a systemic collapse
What is the Big Short?