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
Waking Up from the American Dream There has been much talk recently about the phenomenon of "Wal-Martization" of America, whi
Waking Up from the American Dream There has been much talk recently about the phenomenon of "Wal-Martization" of America, whi
admin
2013-01-12
50
问题
Waking Up from the American Dream
There has been much talk recently about the phenomenon of "Wal-Martization" of America, which refers to the attempt of America’s giant Wal-Mart chain store company to keep its cost at rock-bottom levels. For years, many American companies have embraced Wal-Mart-like stratagems to control labor costs, such as hiring temps (temporary workers) and part-timers, fighting unions, dismantling internal career ladders and outsourcing to lower paying contractors at home and abroad.
While these tactics have the admirable outcome of holding down consumer prices, they’re costly in other ways. More than a quarter of the labor force, about 34 million workers, is trapped in low-wage, often dead-end jobs. Many middle-income and highs killed employees face fewer opportunities, too, as companies shift work to subcontractors and temps agencies and move white-collar jobs to China and India.
The result has been an erosion of one of America’s most cherished value: giving its people the ability to move up the economic ladder over their lifetimes. Historically, most Americans, even lows killed ones, were able to find poorly paid janitorial or factory jobs, then gradually climbed into the middle class as they gained experience and moved up the wage curve. But the number of workers progressing upward began to slip in 1970s. Upward mobility diminished even more in the 1980s as globalization and technology slammed blue-collar wages.
Restoring American mobility is less a question of knowing what to do than of making it happen. Experts have decried schools’ inadequacy for years, but fixing them is a long, arduous struggle. Similarly, there have been plenty of warnings about declining college access, but finding funds was difficult even in eras of large surpluses.
The American dream in this passage mainly refers to ______.
选项
A、there are always possibilities offered to people to develop themselves in the society
B、Americans can always move up the pay ladder
C、American young people can have access to college, even they are poor
D、the labor force is not trapped in low-wage and dead-end jobs
答案
B
解析
文章标题是“从美国梦中醒来”。根据文章讲述的沃尔玛通过降低劳动成本保证低廉价格,以及shift work to subcontractor sand temps agencies等行为破坏了 America’s most cherished value——人们能获得机会move up the economic ladder,可判断,此处的American Dream指的是人们能逐渐在薪水上实现攀升。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/cd9O777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Themost______technologicalsuccessinthetwentiethcenturyisprobablythecomputerrevolution.
Theproblemhasbeen______mymindallday.
Woodyarrivedatamost______moment;Iwasjustgettingintothebath.
Howefficientisoursystemofcriminaltrial?Doesitreallydothebasicjobweaskofit—convictingtheguiltyandacquitting
TheperiodimmediatelyfollowingtheCivilWarwasatimeofgreathopeforBlacksinAmerica.Itwasalsoatimeofmomentous【2
TheperiodimmediatelyfollowingtheCivilWarwasatimeofgreathopeforBlacksinAmerica.Itwasalsoatimeofmomentous【2
Thepreservedfoodshouldretainpalatableappearance,flavor,andtexture,aswellasitsoriginalnutritionalvalue.
"Humanism"hasusedtomeantoomanythingstobeaverysatisfactoryterm.57.Nevertheless,andinthelackofabetterword,
______ifIhadarrivedyesterdaywithoutlettingyouknowbeforehand?
随机试题
尿路感染最常见的致病菌是
用量过大可引起灰婴综合征的是静脉注射时可出现舌头麻木及口内特殊气味
治疗因痰饮引起的呕吐,除取主穴外还应加
患者,女,58岁。脑动脉硬化6年。突然发生口眼歪斜,半身不遂,半小时后,自行恢复;平日头晕头痛,耳鸣,腰膝酸软,舌红,苔薄黄,脉弦细。应首先考虑的方剂是
符某是某机械厂职工,上班经常迟到、早退、工作消极。在厂方予以口头警告后仍不改正,反而故意损坏机器设备,浪费能源。工厂领导多次批评教育无效后,决定予以辞退。符某得知该消息后,十分紧张,四处寻找工作,并与厂领导交涉。3个月后,符某向劳动争议仲裁委员会提出仲裁申
某出版社准备将俄国作家列夫·托尔斯泰(1828—1910年)的《安娜·卡列尼娜》重新翻译出版。该社应做到()等。
气候系统是一个包括()、陆地表面等在内的,能够决定气候形成、气候分布和气候变化的统一的物理系统。
税收不能课及的领域包括()。
下列哪些是数据结构研究的内容? I.数据的采集和集成 II.数据的逻辑结构 III.数据的存储结构 IV.数据的传输 V.数据的运算
以下程序运行后,输出结果是#definePT5.5#defineS(x)PT*x*x#includemain(){inta=1,b=2;printf("%4.1f\n",S(a+b));}
最新回复
(
0
)