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- 5月 01 週一 201718:20
托福閱讀真題 Artisans and Industrialization 解答 (3)
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- 4月 29 週六 201718:16
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- 4月 27 週四 201718:07
托福閱讀真題 Artisans and Industrialization 解答 (1)
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- 4月 25 週二 201715:45
托福閱讀真題 Artisans and Industrialization Taks (3)
Paragraph 5: n this newly emerging economic order, workers sometimes organized to protect their right and traditional ways of life. Craft workers such as carpenters, printers , and tailors formed unions, and in 1834 individual unions came together in the National Trades’ Union. The labor movement gathered some momentum in the decade before the Panic of 1837, but in the depression that followed, labor’s strength collapsed. During hard times, few workers were willing to strike” or engage in collective action. And skilled craft workers, who spearheaded laborers. More than a decade of agitation did finally bring a workday shortened to 10 hours to most industries by the 1850’s, and the courts also recognized workers’ right to strike, but these gain had little immediate impact.
- 4月 23 週日 201715:43
托福閱讀真題 Artisans and Industrialization Taks (2)
Paragraph 3: The factory changed that. Goods produced by factories were not as finished or elegant as those done by hand, and pride in craftsmanship gave way to the pressure to increase of productivity. The new method of doing business involved a new and stricter sense of time. Factory life necessitated a more regimented schedule, where work began at the sound of a bell and workers kept machines going at a constant pace. At the same time, workers were required to discard old habits, for industrialism demanded a worker who was alert, dependable, and self-disciplined. Absenteeism and lateness hurt productivity and, since work was specialized, disrupted the regular factory routine. Industrialization not only produced a fundamental change in the way work was organized; it transformed the very nature of work.
- 4月 22 週六 201715:35
托福閱讀真題 Artisans and Industrialization Taks (1)
Paragraph 1: Before 1815 manufacturing in the United States had been done in homes or shops by skilled artisans. As master craft workers, they imparted the knowledge of their trades to apprentices and journeymen. In addition, women often worked in their homes part-time, making finished articles from raw material supplied by merchant capitalists. After 1815 this order form of manufacturing began to give way to factories with machinery tended by unskilled or semiskilled laborers. Cheap transportation networks, the rise of cities, and the availability of capital and credit all stimulated the shift to factory production.
- 4月 21 週五 201717:04
托福閱讀真題 Artisans and Industrialization
- 4月 19 週三 201721:27
托福閱讀真題 Aggression 解答 (3)
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- 4月 18 週二 201713:56
托福閱讀真題 Aggression 單字
engage (V./ Adj.) 聘用; 使感興趣; 接合; 進攻;(與…)交戰
- 4月 17 週一 201722:25
托福閱讀真題 Aggression 解答 (2)
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