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根据材料请回答Opinion polls are now beginning to show a reluctant consensus that, whoever is to blame and whateverhappens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to stay. This means we shall have to find ways ofsharing the available employment more widely. But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamentalquestions about the future of work. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm? Should we not ratherencourage many other ways for self-respecting people to work? Should we not create conditions in which many ofus can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim to revive the household and theneighborhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centers of production and work?
The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people's work has taken the formof jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which itbrought.may have to be reversed. This seems a daunting thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a betterfuture for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom.
Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many peopledependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living forthemselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people's homes.Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by mad, people commuted longer distances to their places ofemployment until, eventually, many people's work lost all connection with their home lives and the places inwhich they lived.
Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In pre-industrial times, men and women had sharedthe productive work of the household and village community. Now it became customary for the husband to go outto paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and the family to his wife. Tax and benefit regulationsstill assume this norm today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between the sexes.
It was not only women whose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work,young people and old people were excluded-a problem now, as more teenagers become frustrated at school andmore retired people want to live active lives.
All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away fromthe utopian goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.
According to the author, the universal employment has_________
A． turned out not to be the best form of jobs
B． created an alternative form of jobs
C．built the foundation of an economic leap
D． failed to produce job opportunities for most people
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