Engineers might socialize with the bosses, but that wouldn't account for their higher average salaries. Please look in the reading material or just pick another answer.

Maybe they think they are superior, but they aren't. Please look in the reading material or just pick another answer.

RIGHT! High school students are usually told that they will make higher salaries if they go to college, but they aren't told that they will be making little or no money during their years of study. Please skip to the next question

Who could say whose work is more important? Please look in the reading material or just pick another answer.

Actually, the workforce will produce a lot more than their value. Otherwise, the capitalist wouldn't want them. Please look in the reading material or just pick another answer.

This answer is not as dumb as it looks at first. It's exactly what the boss is looking at -- how much money he's going to make out of this workforce. But it's not their value. Please look in the reading material or just pick another answer.

This won't work, because the average value of all workers might be different from the value of the workers in this particular workforce. Suppose, for example, that they were all rocket scientists! Please look in the reading material or just pick another answer.

RIGHT! Their replacement value is their value. Please skip to the next question.

RIGHT! We learned in the commodities lesson that supply and demand tend to vary prices, but only above and below the actual value. Please skip to the next question

Sorry. I put a lot of these answers in because I realized that idealism is constantly being forced on us. We might want an answer to be true, but that doesn't make it materially true. Please look in the reading material or just pick another answer.

It's kind of a nice thought, but some workers who speak up get fired! Please look in the reading material or just pick another answer.

Bosses tend to pay what they can get away with, not what they are able to do. Please look in the reading material or just pick another answer.

This is idealism, pure and simple. Please look in the reading material or just pick another answer.

People aren't commodities, but labor power, for purposes of understanding economics, is. It's a little hard to get over our feelings when we're talking about value associated with workers, but it's necessary before we go on to the good stuff. Please look in the reading material or just pick another answer.

It's hard to observe, but sometimes union contracts aren't as good as previous ones. Even union workers lose wages and benefits sometimes. Please look in the reading material or just pick another answer.

RIGHT! The great Communist leader, George Meyers, wrote an excellent pamphlet about why he gave up being an important trade union leader to place his fortunes with the Communist Party. He said that he got tired of trying to win the same gains over and over again in union contracts, until he realized that workers will never achieve stable and enduring gains as long as capitalists maintain the upper hand! Thanks for working this little module. The next one is the big one! Help us improve this on-line school with a little feedback, please.

In the book "Marx and Engels on the Trade Unions," they say that English workers tended to get more enduring gains from political action than directly from their bosses. But it's still not stable and enduring! Look, for example, at what happened to American workers during the Reagan-Bush years! Please look in the reading material or just pick another answer.

So the bosses tell us! Please look in the reading material or just pick another answer.