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Strikes and demonstrations in Germany, Britain and France helped to make the
Strikes and demonstrations in Germany, Britain and France helped to make the
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2024-08-30
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Strikes and demonstrations in Germany, Britain and France helped to make the shorter working week a union priority. Employers gave way because in Germany sweating capital investment had traditionally been the way German managers sustained high productivity.
In Britain, there was a certain cynicism in agreeing to a reduced working week as British workers have always opted for extensive overtime to make up low basic wages. A nominal 35-hour week merely allowed more overtime.
Working with union leaders such as Ron Todd and Bill Jordan in Britain and Hans Mayr, the wily IG Metall leader, in Germany, I found that there was one big gap in the movement for a 35-hour week. The Swedish union movement refused categorically to join the campaign.
Given that in the 1980s—as today—95% of the Swedish workforce is unionized, the absence of the Swedish metalworkers’ union left a large hole in the European campaign. The Swedish thought that focusing on nominal weekly working hours was fatuous.
The Swedish metal union believed that the distribution of working time should focus on annual holidays, family leave and on rigidly enforced limits on overtime that would be unacceptable to any self-respecting British shop steward. For the Swedish unions, working hours should help support Volvo, Saab, Electrolux and other companies faced with the growing challenge of globalization.
To prescribe a rigid working week as the solution to European labor market problems just did not make sense to the calm, consensual approach that had allowed Swedish capitalism to flourish while delivering the best version of "social Europe" on offer in the continent.
At the time, it appeared frustrating to see this breach in solidarity. But today, the Swedish refusal to make a totem out of the 35-hour week appears more than justified. Sweden has maintained both full employment and record levels of trade union membership. By contrast, in Germany and France, where the 35-hour week was introduced, the continuing high level of unemployment and the lack of movement and energy in the labor market have contributed to the biggest slump in trade union membership ever seen in both countries. [br] Which statement is true according to the passage?
选项
A、Swedish workers hardly dissented from its government in its working week problem.
B、Until today there have been 95% of the Swedish metalworkers that are unionized.
C、Those British managers who have self-respects are considered to oppose a rigid enforcement of limits on overtime.
D、Under the challenge of globalization, some major Swedish companies have turned to annual holidays and family leave for help.
答案
A
解析
…the calm,consensual approach that had allowed Swedish capitalism to flourish while…中consensual这个词表示瑞典工人们并没有异议,正确答案为A。应该是“95%of the Swedish workforce”,而不是“metalworkers”,B错;C中那些企业家应该是反对“overtime”的;而D的观点与原文内容不相符。
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