Ours has become a society of employees. A hundred years or so ago only one out of every fi
Yet you will find little if anything written on what it is to be an employee. You can find a great deal of very dubious advice on how to get a job or how to get a promotion. You can also find a good deal of work in a chosen field, whether it be the mechanist's trade or book-keeping(簿记). Every one of these trades requires different skills, sets different standards, and requires a different preparation. Yet they all have employeeship in common. And increasingly, especially in the large business or in government, employeeship is more important to success than the special professional knowledge or skill. Certainly more people fail because they do not know the requirements of being an employee than because they do not adequately possess the skills of their trade; the higher you climb the ladder, the more you get into administrative or executive work, the greater the emphasis on ability to work within the organization rather than on technical abilities or professional knowledge.
It is implied that fifty years ago _______.
A.eighty per cent of American working people were employed in factories
B.twenty per cent of American intellectuals were employees
C.the percentage of intellectuals in the total work force was almost the same as that of industrial workers
D.the percentage of intellectuals working as employees was not so large as that of industrial workers