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  3. During the 1920s, most advocates of scientific management, Frederick Taylors met

During the 1920s, most advocates of scientific management, Frederick Taylors met

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问题 During the 1920s, most advocates of scientific management, Frederick Taylors method for maximizing workers’ productivity by rigorously routinizing their jobs, opposed the five-day workweek. Although scientific managers conceded that reducing hours might provide an incentive to workers, in practice they more often used pay differentials to encourage higher productivity. Those reformers who wished to embrace both scientific management and reduced hours had to make a largely negative case, portraying the latter as an antidote to the rigors of the former.
In contrast to the scientific managers, Henry Ford claimed that shorter hours led to greater productivity and profits. However, few employers matched either Ford’s vision or his specific interest in mass marketing a product—automobiles—that required leisure for its use, and few unions succeeded in securing shorter hours through bargaining. At its 1928 convention, the American Federation of Labor(AFL)boasted of approximately 165,000 members working five-day, 40-hour weeks. But although this represented an increase of about 75,000 since 1926, about 70 percent of the total came from five extremely well-organized building trades’ unions. [br] It can be inferred that the author of the passage mentions "automobiles"(line 10)primarily to suggest that
选项 A、Ford’s business produced greater profits than did businesses requiring a workweek longer than five days
B、Ford, unlike most other employers, encouraged his employees to use the products they produced
C、Ford may have advocated shorter hours because of the particular nature of his business
D、unions were more likely to negotiate for shorter hours in some businesses than in others
E、automobile workers’ unions were more effective than other unions in securing a five-day workweek
答案 C
解析 Choice C: Ford may have advocated shorter hours because of the particular nature of his business
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