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本帖最后由 winning1030 于 2009-3-27 16:25 编辑
143The following appeared as a letter to the editor of a national newspaper.
"Your recent article on corporate downsizing* in the United States is misleading. The article gives the mistaken impression that many competent workers who lost jobs as a result of downsizing face serious economic hardship, often for years, before finding other suitable employment. But this impression is contradicted by a recent report on the United States economy, which found that since 1992 far more jobs have been created than have been eliminated. The report also demonstrates that many of those who lost their jobs have found new employment. Two-thirds of the newly created jobs have been in industries that tend to pay above-average wages, and the vast majority of these jobs are full-time."
*Downsizing is the process in which corporations deliberately reduce the number of their employees.
Considering that since 1992 far more jobs have been created than have been eliminated and many of those who lost their jobs have found new employment in a recent report and the current situation that two-thirds of the newly created jobs have been in industries which tend to pay above-average wages, and the vast majority of these jobs are full-time, the writer refute the view of the editor that
many competent workers who lost jobs as a result of downsizing face serious economic hardship, often for years, before finding other suitable employment. However, this refutal is unwarranted.
Although the survey which found that since 1992 far more jobs have been created than have been eliminated,the writer doesn’t provide enough evidence that the jobs created supply the demand of the workers who lost jobs as a result of downsizing appropriately. Failing to consider some factors which may significantly influence the situation of employment, such as the demographic change of job hunters, employment pressure and competition and occupations based on supply and demand, the writer can’t draw his hasty conclusion. It’s possible that there are no enough jobs for the workers cut down, given that more people are seeking for at the same time, as means that the workers have to bear more employment pressure and competition than ever with higher chance of unemployment. Even though the jobs supplied is enough, occupations may not match .For example, a majority of the jobs supplied require professional knowledge in business and engineering while most of the workers from other fields, such as
catering industry, medicine, may not equal, with a result that the situation of employment is not optimistic.
In addition, the word “many” in the report to refer to the rate of employment for the workers is too vague to convince me of his conclusion. What is the exact number on earth? Is it 3000, for instance, with total number of 30,000 of unemployment? If so, the writer can’t predict a positive prospect of employment for the proportion is so small that it can’t be generalized. Moreover, I can’t get any information about whether the employees are satisfied with their new jobs now. Maybe they just surrender to the severe competitive institution of employment and lead a hardy life which they have never experienced before. The standards of living far below ever should be also regarded as serious economic hardship. Thus, more information should be given to support the writer’s claim.
Similarly, to strength the writer’s conclusion that two-thirds of the newly created jobs have been in industries that tend to pay above-average wages, and the vast majority of these jobs are full-time, the writer commits both of the fallacies I have mentioned above. Again, regardless of occupations based on supply and demand and comparison the standards of living before with those now, the writer’s refutal
is unconvincing .The possibilities that two-thirds of the workers are highly educated elites in society who aren’t suitable for labor can’t be ruled out , let alone the above-average wages to satisfy their qualities of life. Thus, maybe full-time jobs sound tempting; however, they make no sense if they can’t provide appropriate employment opportunities for the workers.
In sum, the writer’ refutal is weak unless he offers more information about the demographic change of job hunters, employment pressure and competition ,occupations based on supply and demand and the gap of standers of living between now and before if the workers take new jobs.
PS:写之前找到到汇总楼,所有没看破题策略,所以写出来貌似有点。。。。 |
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