2. Two of the songs deal with issues of physical, mental, and emotional challenges. Which two songs are they? What similarities and differences do they express about the challenges. 3. What opportunities, both legitimate and otherwise, does factory work provide? 4. Many Baby-Boomers were the first in their families to attend to college because of their well-paying factory summer jobs and/or the full-time factory jobs of one or both of their parents. What are some of the "hidden costs" of losing manufacturing jobs to other countries? 5. At the end of "Rivethead," the unemployed factory worker snubs GM, his former employer, by buying a Ford Motor Company-manufactured Lincoln automobile. After nearly a lifetime of high-wage employment at GM, does Rivethead owe GM a debt of loyalty? Would your answer be the same if your employer "downsized" you? 6. What changes are often observed in "company men" (employees who are super loyal to their employer, defend their employer no matter what the employer does, and make sacrifices themselves and require them of their family for the benefit of their employer) when they lose their jobs because of downsizing? 7. When it comes to factories (or any other type of employment), are workers the only ones who may be unhappy with their situation? How does the song "Richard Cory" illustrate that appearances may be deceiving? 8. The fourth song, "Richard Cory," focuses on a factory owner as seen through the eyes of one of the factory's workers. What discrepancy apparently exists between the life of the factory owner and the life that the factory worker perceives the factory owner is living? What message about perceptions does this song present to the listener? In the end, who lived the more satisfying life - the factory owner or the factory worker, or were they both Ethics and the human element are oftentimes overlooked in Business School classes. At one time, much of managerial accounting dealt with factory management. There are far fewer factories in the U.S. than there were two or three generations ago. Therefore, fewer university students have worked in factories or know anyone who has. Despite this, many of the pressures, fears, health and safety concerns, and despair that factory workers of the past felt are also felt by today's workers in many different work environments. As managers, you need to be aware of them in dealing with your employees. And it is likely you will also experience some of them at some point in your career. Attached are audio files of four songs - three dealing with the "factory experience," and one dealing with the misperception of a factory worker. Two explanatory notes: "One Piece at a Time" was written at a time when citizen band (CB) radios in cars and trucks were popular (in the time before wireless phones). So, the conversation between the singer, "Cotton Mouth" and "Red Ryder" (self-selected nicknames or "handles") was the singer answering the questions of another motorist on the highway using a CB radio. "Rivethead" was written at the time when General Motors (GM), once the largest company in the world, was closing many auto plants in the face of competition from Toyota, Nissan and other foreign automakers. One plant closing decision came down to close the Willow Run Plant in Ypsilanti, MI, a massive complex built during World War II to quickly produce military aircraft and a historical icon in Michigan or close a more modern plant in Texas at a time when the U.S. had a president who was from Texas. The song presents the sentiments of a Willow Run Plant worker upon learning it was that plant which was being closed. Autoworkers and their families have expressed amazement at how accurately the composer of "Rivethead" captured the experiences and feelings of the hundreds of thousands of people who worked in auto plants