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In mid-February 1917 a women’s movement independent of political affiliation erupted in New York City, the stronghold of the Socialist party in the United states. Protesting against the high cost of living, thousands of women refused to buy chickens, fish, and vegetables. The boycott shut down much of the City’s foodstuffs marketing for two weeks, riveting public attention on the issue of food prices, which had increased partly as a result of increased exports of food to Europe that had been occurring since the outbreak of the First World War. By early 1917 the Socialist party had established itself as a major political presence in New York City. New York Socialists, whose customary spheres of struggle were electoral work and trade union organizing, seized the opportunity and quickly organized an extensive series of cost-of-living protests designed to direct the women’s movement toward Socialist goals. Underneath the Socialists’ brief commitment to cost-of-living organizing lay a basic indifference to the issue itself. While some Socialists did view price protests as a direct step toward socialism, most Socialists ultimately sought to divert the cost-of-living movement into alternative channels of protest. Union organizing, they argued, was the best method through which to combat the high cost of living. For others, cost-of-living or organizing was valuable insofar as it led women into the struggle for suffrage, and similarly, the suffrage struggle was valuable insofar as it moved United States society one step closer to socialism. Although New York’s Socialists saw the cost-of-living issue as, at best, secondary or tertiary to the real task at hand, the boycotters, by sharp contrast, joined the price protest movement out of an urgent and deeply felt commitment to the cost-of-living issue. A shared experience of swiftly declining living standards caused by rising food prices drove these women to protest. Consumer organizing spoke directly to their daily lives and concerns; they saw cheaper food as a valuable end in itself. Food price protests were these women’s way of organizing at their own workplace, as workers whose occupation was shopping and preparing food for their families.
Q26 It can be inferred from the passage that the goal
of the boycotting women was the A. achievement of an immediate economic
outcome B. development of a more socialistic society C. concentration of widespread consumer
protests on the more narrow issue of food prices D. development of one among a number of different approaches that the women
wished to employ in combating the high
cost of living. E. attraction of more public interest to issues
that the women and the New York socialists
considered important. GWD-TN-24给的答案是C 我选的A~~我只找到了一个讨论帖 555...但是是个只有人问 没人回答的帖子...我知道看长文章很麻烦 但还是希望NN们能帮帮忙啊~~~ 我觉得正确选项应该是A诶，选C的是不是以文章最后一句话为依据啊？但是...我觉得concentration of widespread consumer
protests 只是他们实现目标的一个手段，而不是目标本身。文章最后一句也说了Food price protests were these women’s way of organizing ，是way而不是goal
open to discuss...THAX! | 
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