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The rise of "temp" work has further magnified the decreasing rights and alienation of the worker. It is common corporate practic

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问题     The rise of "temp" work has further magnified the decreasing rights and alienation of the worker. It is common corporate practice to phase out full time employees and hire temporary workers to take on more workload in less time. When facing a pressing deadline, a corporation may pay $15 to $20 per hour for a temp worker, but the temp worker will only see $7 or $8 of that money. The rest goes to the temp agency, which is usually a corporate chain, such as Kelly Services, that blatantly (公然地) makes its profits out of other people’s labor. This increases profits of the corporations because they can increase a workload, get rid of the employee when they’re finished, and not worry about paying benefits or unemployment for that employee.
    "I have had to work with temps, a few times in my current position, and the workers only want one thing—a full time job with benefits. We really wanted to hire one temp I was working with, but we could not offer her a full time job because it would have been a breach in our contract with the temp agency that employed her," said an operation manager.
    To hire a temp full time, a corporation would have had to pay the agency over a thousand dollars. Through this practice and policy, the temp agency locks its temporary workers into a horrible new form of servitude (奴役) from which the worker cannot break free.
    Furthermore, corporate powers push workers to take on bigger workloads, work longer hours, and accept less benefit by instilling a paranoia (多疑症) in their workforce. The capitalist, bosses assume dishonesty, disloyalty, and laziness amongst workers, and they breed a sense of guilt and fear through their assumptions. Where guilt doesn’t seep in, bitterness, anger, and depression take over. The highest priorities of Big Business are to increase profits and limit liabilities. Personal relations and human needs are last on their list of priorities. So what we see is a huge mass of people who are alienated, dis-empowered, overworked, mentally and physically ill and who spend the vast majority of their time and energy on their basic survival. They are denied any chance to really "live", because they are forced to make profits for the capitalists in power.
We can know from the passage that the temp workers must sign an employment contract with________.
选项 A、the corporations
B、the corporate powers
C、the temp agencies
D、the capitalist bosses
答案B
解析 根据题干关键词temp workers，contract定位到第2段末句。第2段末句的定语从句the temp agency that employed her表明临时工的雇佣合约是与临时工中介公司签订的，因此选项B为本题答案。选项C和D都从属于选项A，故C、D可先排除。另外根据第3段最后一句提到的临时工无法摆脱中介公司的新型奴役状态，可推断临时工应与中介公司存在雇佣关系。
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