Worksheet #5
A. First, investigate labor issues in the TNC.
What are pay levels at the headquarters?
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What are pay levels at the main points along the production
network?
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What is the gender pattern in hiring at these different
levels?
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B. Share Price and Earnings. Now, investigate, the
company's changing share price and earnings over a set period of time (it might
be anything from a century, to fifty years, to just a few years). Be sure to be
explicit about the time period! Modify the following table if necessary. Think
about making a graph of changes over time.
Year(s)
Share Price
Earnings
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One good source in this respect is
http://www.cf.ac.uk/ccin/union/links.html Some more information on these issues
for American based TNCs is sometime available at http://www.freeERISA.com or
http://www.osha.gov The latter will tell you about any occupational safety and
health violations by the TNC but only within the USA. Second investigate, the
company's changing share price and earnings over a set period of time (it might
be anything from a century, to fifty years, to just a few years). Most of this
information is available from stock quote sites such as http://www.quicken.com
This site will also provide you with free stock analyst reports on your TNC.
C. Find at least two academic articles (or books) that
discuss the TNC you are researching. Write a one page summary of each article,
noting:
a) its main argument;
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b) its author’s disciplinary and theoretical approach;
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c) its author’s perspective
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d) the source and type of data used to make the argument
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