Ours has become a society of employees. A hundred years or so ago only one of every five Americans at work was employed, i. e. , worked for somebody else. Today only one out of five is not employed but working for himself. And when file years ago "being employed" meant working as a factory laborer or as a farmhand, the employee of today is increasingly a middleclass person with a substantial formal education, holding a professional or management job requiring intellectual and technical skills. Indeed, two things have characterized American society during these last fifty years; middle-class and upper-class employees have been the fastest-growing groups in our working population --- growing so fast that the industrial worker, the oldest child of the Indus- trial Revolution, has been losing in. numerical importance despite the expansion of industrial production.
Yet you will find little if anything written on what it is to be an employee. You can find a gr
A. valuable
B. useful
C. doubtful
D. helpful
Ours has become a society of employees. A hundred years or so ago only one of every five Americans at work was employed, i. e. , worked for somebody else. Today only one out of five is not employed but working for himself. And when file years ago "being employed" meant working as a factory laborer or as a farmhand, the employee of today is increasingly a middleclass person with a substantial formal education, holding a professional or management job requiring intellectual and technical skills. Indeed, two things have characterized American society during these last fifty years; middle-class and upper-class employees have been the fastest-growing groups in our working population --- growing so fast that the industrial worker, the oldest child of the Indus- trial Revolution, has been losing in. numerical importance despite the expansion of industrial production.
Yet you will find little if anything written on what it is to be an employee. You can find a gr
A. factory laborers will Overtake intellectual employees in number
B. there are as ninny middle-class employees as factory laborers
C. employers have attached great importance to factory laborers
D. the proportion of factory laborers in the total employee population has decreased
It would be difficult to have a society like ours without public goods such as defense, transportation, and other services.
A public good is one that a person can use without reducing the use of it for another person. One of the best examples of a public good is national defense. One person can benefit from our national defense without reducing another person’s benefits. In fact, it is difficult to keep any per son in our society from enjoying the benefits of national defense.
The market system does not work well in producing public goods. This is because a person who refuses to pay for a public good cannot be kept from using it. Suppose that the neighbors in a high crime area decide to hire a police force. Each neighbor, except Mrs. Smith, agrees to pay $100 a year for it. Mrs. Smith refuses to pay because she knows that if all the others pay the $100, the police will guard the area anyway. So Mrs. Smith can enjoy the services of the police force wi
A. there will be no safety if there is no national defense
B. all the people should be responsible for national defense
C. a public good is a shared benefit for the whole society
D. some public goods are more important than others
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