history business

1. As part of the restructuring of aemrica's business system, small businesses expereinced a modest resurgence in the 1970s and 1980s. Please explain and give an example in the manufacturing sector of small businesses.  
2. We also see the advent of franchising. what is franchising and what companies really took off esepcailly in the 1950s and 60s?
3. How did big business struggle during this period? Use IBM as an example and how did that lead to the growth of microsoft?
4. Discuss NAFTA. Why did and do Industrial workers see it as a threat to their security?
5. what threat did the formation of the EU have for the USA?
6. The economic Crisis of 2008 was the worst since the Great Depression. What casued it and what was the aftermath of the crisis? do we still see effects of it today?