首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
It is frequently assumed that the mechanization of work has a revolutionary effect on the lives of the people who operate the ne
It is frequently assumed that the mechanization of work has a revolutionary effect on the lives of the people who operate the ne
admin
2012-01-14
86
问题
It is frequently assumed that the mechanization of work has a revolutionary effect on the lives of the people who operate the new machines and on the society into which the machines have been introduced. For example, it has been suggested that the employment of women in industry took them out of the household, their traditional sphere, and fundamentally altered their position in society. In the nineteenth century, when women began to enter factories. Jules Simon, a French politician, warned that by doing so. women would give up their femininity. Fredrich Engels, however, predicted that women would be liberated from the "social, legal, and economic subordination of the family by technological developments that made possible the recruitment of the whole female sex, into public industry. " Observers thus differed concerning the social desirability of mechanization’s effects, but they agreed that it would transform women’s lives.
Historians, particularly those investigating the history of women, now seriously question this assumption of transforming power. They conclude that such dramatic technological innovations as the spinning jenny, the sewing machine, the typewriter, and the vacuum cleaner have not resulted in equally dramatic social changes in women’s economic position or in the prevailing evaluation of women’s work. The employment of young women in textile mills during the industrial revolution was largely an extension of an older pattern of employment of young, single women as domestics. It was not the change in office technology, but rather the separation of secretarial work, previously seen as an apprenticeship for beginning managers, from administrative work that in the 1880 s created a new class of "dead-end" jobs, thenceforth considered "women’s work". The increase in the numbers of married women employed outside the ,home in the twentieth century had less to do with the mechanization of housework and an increase in leisure time for these women than it did with their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrunk the available pool of single women workers, previously, in many cases, the only women employers would hire.
Women’s work has changed considerably in the past 200 years, moving from the household to the office or the factory, and later becoming mostly white-collar instead of blue-collar work. Fundamentally, however, the conditions under which women work have changed little since before the Industrial Revolution: the segregation of occupations by gender, lower pay for women as a group, jobs that require relatively low levels of skill and offer women little opportunity for advancement all persist, while women’s household labour remains demanding. Recent historical investigation has led to a major revision oi the notion that technology is always inherently revolutionary in its effects on society. Mechanization may even have slowed any change in the traditional position of women both in the labour market and in the home. (461 words)
Which of the following best describes the function of the last sentence of the passage?
选项
A、It sums up the general points concerning the mechanization of work made in the passage as a whole.
B、It concludes that the effects of mechanization on women in the labour market and in the home proved contrary to the traditional assumption presented in the passage as a whole.
C、It restates the point concerning technology made in the previous sentence.
D、It qualifies the author’s agreement with scholars who argue for a major revision in the assessment of the impact of mechanization on society.
答案
B
解析
最后一句给出作者自己的结论。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/9i6O777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
TheAustrianmanufacturingindustryconsistsofafewlargeorganizations,manyofwhichoperateundergovernmentauspices.
MostcriticalplotpointsinHarryPotterandtheSorcerer’sStonecamefromJ.K.Rowling’simagination,butFlamelandhispowe
Thewealthofacountryshouldbemeasured______thehealthandhappinessofitspeopleaswellasthematerialgoodsitcanpr
Americanliteraryhistoriansareperhaps______toviewingtheirownnationalscenetoonarrowly,mistakingprominenceforuniqu
Theimmunesystem(protects)thebody(by)recognizinganddestroying(abnormally)orforeigncells,aswellas(providing)anti
Tosurviveintheintensetradecompetitionbetweencountries,wemust______thequalifiesandvarietiesofproductswemaketo
Thewealthofacountryshouldbemeasured______thehealthandhappinessofitspeopleaswellasthematerialgoodsitcanpr
Peopleofallcountriesareexpectedto______theprinciplesoftheUnitedNationsanddefendthepeaceintheworld.
Mostscientistsandengineersfindcareersinthreegeneralsectorsofsociety:collegesanduniversities,industries,andfeder
Thestudyofliteraryinfluenceamongwomenwritershasfrequentlyadoptedamodelofsororalormatrilinealsharinginanoften
随机试题
国际上通常认为,如果速动比率()时,农业企业将面临很大的偿债风险。
患者,男,20岁。因双侧上侧切牙舌向错位,修复治疗1年后,出现上前牙牙龈肿痛,牙齿移位。检查:侧切牙唇面,不良树脂充填物,牙周袋溢脓。全口根尖片显示:仅有上前牙区域有中度牙槽骨水平吸收,应诊断为
一定量理想气体由初态(p1,V1,T1)经等温膨胀到达终态(p2,V2,T2),则气体吸收的热量Q为()。
()是指银行业金融机构根据贷款项目进度和有效贷款需求,在借款人需要对外支付贷款资金时,根据借款人的提款申请以及支付委托,将贷款资金主要通过贷款人受托支付的方式,支付给符合合同约定的借款人交易对象的过程。
王先生在2008年7月1日存入0.84%,则他能取回的全部金额是()。(扣除20%利息税后)
根据政府预算编制依据的内容和方法,可将政府预算分为()。
关于“激越状态”,下列说法中正确的是()。
艺术批评的形态可以分成社会、传记、心理、文本和读者批评。()
南希虽然很想参加辩论,但腼腆得不敢开口。
A、Sheisunwillingtoundertakethem.B、Shecomplainsaboutherbadluck.C、Shealwaysacceptsthemcheerfully.D、Shetakesthem
最新回复
(
0
)