I still have some issues about the article. For example, in the first sentence, two new words puzzled me. What does "authoritarian" and "dehumanizing" mean? I look them up in the dictionary of Cambridge, and according to the wheal article, I think the meaning of "authoritarian" is the company controls the workers, the workers not allowed to do anything as they wish. Then the company can improve the efficiency of their work. And "dehumanizing" means the company just considers the profit of the company, but not thinking about their workers' benefit.
Paragraph three is a little long and difficult. What has interested most in this paragraph is the first sentence. It is very long and complicated. I read it several times to analyze it. The repetitive factory routines and office work the author says is the work, which is simple for workers to do. This kind of job is mindless but boring. So it will destroy the motivation and productivity. This is my understanding about it.
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The first paragraph is not very difficult to understand. I think I have the ability to know the main idea about it. The author talks about the workers change their attitudes for their jobs. It seems that they have more request for working than before. Maybe in the past, people just want to earn money for working, but it is changed now.
I still have some issues about the article. For example, in the first sentence, two new words puzzled me. What does "authoritarian" and "dehumanizing" mean? I look them up in the dictionary of Cambridge, and according to the wheal article, I think the meaning of "authoritarian" is the company controls the workers, the workers not allowed to do anything as they wish. Then the company can improve the efficiency of their work. And "dehumanizing" means the company just considers the profit of the company, but not thinking about their workers' benefit.
Paragraph three is a little long and difficult. What has interested most in this paragraph is the first sentence. It is very long and complicated. I read it several times to analyze it. The repetitive factory routines and office work the author says is the work, which is simple for workers to do. This kind of job is mindless but boring. So it will destroy the motivation and productivity. This is my understanding about it.
