38/63没看到有讨论连接，请教一题

flyingceleste

Passage 38 (38/63)

In Forces of Production, David Noble examines the transformation of the machine-tool industry as the industry moved from reliance on skilled artisans to automation. Noble writes from a Marxist perspective, and his central argument is that management, in its decisions to automate, conspired against labor: the power that the skilled machinists wielded in the industry was intolerable to management. Noble fails to substantiate this claim, although his argument is impressive when he applies the Marxist concept of “de-skilling”—the use of technology to replace skilled labor—to the automation of the machine-tool industry. In automating, the industry moved to computer-based, digitized “numerical-control” (N/C) technology, rather than to artisan-generated “record-playback” (R/P) technology.

Although both systems reduced reliance on skilled labor, Noble clearly prefers R/P, with its inherent acknowledgment of workers’ skills: unlike N/C, its programs were produced not by engineers at their computers, but by skilled machinists, who recorded their own movements to “teach” machines to duplicate those movements. However, Noble’s only evidence of conspiracy is that, although the two approaches were roughly equal in technical merit, management chose N/C. From this he concludes that automation is undertaken not because efficiency demands it or scientific advances allow it, but because it is a tool in the ceaseless war of capitalists against labor.

？7. Which of the following best characterizes Forces of Production as it is described in the passage?

(A) A comparison of two interpretations of how a particular industry evolved

(B) An examination of the origin of a particular concept in industrial economics

(C) A study that points out the weakness of a particular interpretation of an industrial phenomenon

(D) A history of a particular industry from an ideological point of view（D）

(E) An attempt to relate an industrial phenomenon in one industry to a similar phenomenon in another industry

不好意思，请问这题在原文体现在何处？没看出来

littlebriton

文章目的是指出这本书的不足，而这本书最大的缺陷是only based on the author's alleged belief and hypothesis = ideological, btw, 除了D顺眼外，别的都错的很离谱阿

flyingceleste

这题当时就是没看出来哪里体现了ideological ，后来看到 However, Noble’s only evidence of conspiracy is that, although the two approaches were roughly equal in technical merit, management chose N/C. From this he concludes that，明白了现在

amber0919

killgmatt

以下是引用flyingceleste在2006-4-4 0:53:00的发言：

Passage 38 (38/63)

In Forces of Production, David Noble examines the transformation of the machine-tool industry as the industry moved from reliance on skilled artisans to automation. Noble writes from a Marxist perspective, and his central argument is that management, in its decisions to automate, conspired against labor: the power that the skilled machinists wielded in the industry was intolerable to management. Noble fails to substantiate this claim, although his argument is impressive when he applies the Marxist concept of “de-skilling”—the use of technology to replace skilled labor—to the automation of the machine-tool industry. In automating, the industry moved to computer-based, digitized “numerical-control” (N/C) technology, rather than to artisan-generated “record-playback” (R/P) technology.

Although both systems reduced reliance on skilled labor, Noble clearly prefers R/P, with its inherent acknowledgment of workers’ skills: unlike N/C, its programs were produced not by engineers at their computers, but by skilled machinists, who recorded their own movements to “teach” machines to duplicate those movements. However, Noble’s only evidence of conspiracy is that, although the two approaches were roughly equal in technical merit, management chose N/C. From this he concludes that automation is undertaken not because efficiency demands it or scientific advances allow it, but because it is a tool in the ceaseless war of capitalists against labor.

？7. Which of the following best characterizes Forces of Production as it is described in the passage?

(A) A comparison of two interpretations of how a particular industry evolved

(B) An examination of the origin of a particular concept in industrial economics

(C) A study that points out the weakness of a particular interpretation of an industrial phenomenon

(D) A history of a particular industry from an ideological point of view（D）

(E) An attempt to relate an industrial phenomenon in one industry to a similar phenomenon in another industry

不好意思，请问这题在原文体现在何处？没看出来

Noble writes from a Marxist perspective.从一个马克思主义者的角度。

所以是基于意识形态的观点

苏丹

        David Noble examines the transformation of the
machine-tool industry as the industry moved from reliance on skilled artisans
to automation. 这句话描述了machine-tool industry(机床工业）从依靠熟练工人到依靠自动化的转变过程，可理解为A history of a particular industry

此外，Noble writes from a
Marxist perspective，即意识形态的观点，可理解为from an ideological point of view（D）
    

因此，选D

wtylys

楼上的，一针见血。。