Review Questions: 1. What are some of the ways in which capital exercises influence over the State? 2. Using a historical instance as an example, explain how the State helped to create the conditions for capitalist competition. 3. How does the welfare state help stabilise the capitalist system? 4. How did the rise of labor unions change the working conditions of labor? 5. What were the broad differences in the balance of power between capital and labor in the US and Canada in the 1930s and in the 1980s