問題詳情
請依下文回答第 16 題至第 20 題 After the first few decades of the Industrial Revolution, a pattern of hiring whole families to work in the newfactories emerged. Although this system meant that the amount of wages necessary for subsistence was kept to aminimum, it at least allowed the working-class family to stay together. By the middle of the nineteenth century thepractice of hiring families and children was declining, but life for the industrial working class remained oppressive.The factories and mines were dark, dirty, and dangerous. The dwellings of the workers were likely to be hovelsclustered around smoky, noisy mills or mine entrances. The workers were frequently compelled to spend their wages atcompany stores, paying monopoly prices arbitrarily set by the owners. Work lost its dignity. The factory workers weredisciplined to the clock and the machine. The dull, monotonous, robotlike repetition of a single operation on a machinebrought workers none of the satisfaction and pride of skilled craftsmanship. Many historians and social scientists argue that statistics show that the early factory workers received higher wagesand enjoyed a better standard of living than they had ever had as agricultural or urban workers. Clearly, industrialworkers were reaping material benefits from the Industrial Revolution after 1850, but in the years before 1850 workersmay have lost more than they gained. The longer hours, greater insecurity, limits on freedom, and more frequentunemployment of the uprooted slum-dwelling factory worker of the early nineteenth century do not appear in statisticsof wages and prices. The overall pictures of the industrial proletariat during the first half of the nineteenth century isdismal and can justly be characterized as a new kind of slavery—slavery to the machine and the machine owner.
【題組】16 When did the system of hiring the whole family to work in the factory start?
(A) After 1850
(B) At the end of the nineteenth century
(C) After the first few decades of the Industrial Revolution
(D) Before the Industrial Revolution
參考答案
答案：C
難度：非常簡單1
統計：A(0),B(0),C(1),D(0),E(0)