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According to anthropologists, people in pre-industrial societies spent 3 to
According to anthropologists, people in pre-industrial societies spent 3 to
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According to anthropologists, people in pre-industrial societies spent 3 to 4 hours per day or about 20 hours per week doing the work necessary for life. Modern comparisons of the amount of work performed per week, however, begin with the Industrial Revolution (1760—1840) when 10- to 12-hour workdays with six workdays per week were the
norm
. Even with extensive time devoted to work, however, both incomes and standards of living were low. As incomes rose near the end of the Industrial Revolution, it became increasingly common to treat Saturday afternoons as a half-day holiday. The half holiday had become standard practice in Britain by the 1870’s, but did not become common in the United States until the 1920’s.
In the United States, the first third of the twentieth century saw the workweek move from 60 hours per week to just under 50 hours by the start of the 1930’s. In 1914 Henry Ford reduced daily work hours at his automobile plants from 9 to 8.In 1926 he announced that
henceforth
his factories would close for the entire day on Saturday. At the time, Ford received criticism from other firms such as United States Steel and Westinghouse, but the idea was popular with workers.
The Depression years of the 1930’s brought with them the notion of job sharing to spread available work around; the workweek dropped to a modem low for the United States of 35 hours. In 1938 the Fair Labor Standards Act
mandated
a weekly maximum of 40 hours to begin in 1940, and since that time the 8-hour day, 5-day workweek has been the standard in the United States.
Adjustments in various places, however, show that this standard is not
immutable
. In 1987, for example, German metalworkers struck for and received a 37.5-hour workweek; and in 1990 many workers in Britain won a 37-hour week. Since 1989, the Japanese government has moved from a 6- to a 5-day workweek and has set a national target of 1, 800 work hours per year for the average worker. The average amount of work per year in Japan in 1989 was 2,088 hours per worker, compared to 1, 957 for the United States and 1,646 for France. [br] What is one reason for the change in the length of the workweek for the average worker in the United States during the 1930’s?
选项
A、Several people sometimes shared a single job.
B、Labor strikes in several countries influenced labor policy in the United States.
C、Several corporations increased the length of the workweek.
D、The United States government instituted a 35-hour workweek.
答案
A
解析
本题提问美国20世纪30年代周工作时长变化的原因。由第3段第1句可知是因为大萧条时期工作不多,人们开始分享工作,而人均的工作时长也就产生了变化,因此A项正确。文中虽然提到了其他国家通过罢工运动降低工作时长,但发生在美国做出调整之后,因此B项错误。C项文中无提及。D项“美国政府实行35小时工作制”是利用35 hours设置的干扰项,文中没有提到美国政府有实行这个工作制,这只是因为工作机会不多而导致人们自发采取分享工作这种做法,从而导致周时长降为了35小时,故D项也不选。
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