高中英语外刊阅读60篇（2022第五期）

01 当失业危机阴云笼罩，你的工作保得住吗？ 维多利亚总理丹尼尔·安德鲁斯在他的推特上解释说，过去三周内，3810名维多 利亚人的冠状病毒检测呈阳性，令人吃惊的是，89%的人尽管有早期症状，但仍继续工 作。他们承担不起在家呆着的成本。本文节选自：The Guardian（2020.7） Workplace insecurity pervades the whole economy, just when every job is under threat Ever since the Hawke and Keating years, governments have hailed workplace deregulation and flex‐ ibility, as they eroded centralised bargaining and rigid awards in the scramble for productivity. The al‐ most universal enthusiasm of the market facilitated a conception of workers as, in Peters’words,“free agent[s] in an economy of free agents”, with each person supposedly a“corporation of one”. In the two decades since Peters coined the idea of the“personal brand”, workplace insecurity has in‐ creased and has been resisted by many workers – for good reason. Some of the security staff guarding Melbourne’s Covid-19 quarantine hotels obtained the work through WhatsApp messages – and so didn’ t even understand for whom they were actually working. When new hires asked about wages, the recruiter simply messaged,“25 dollars”, meaning that they would be paid (poorly) as independent contractors rather than employees.In the notoriously low pay secu‐ rity industry, employers use subcontracting to drive down rates, avoid liabilities and duck their own re‐ sponsibilities. A review by the Department of Justice and Community Safety detailed the“highly casualised, rela‐ tively low-paid and transient”workforce in the sector, with so-called“sham contracting”deployed to en‐ sure that employees do not receive“employment entitlements such as overtime, penalty rates and leave”. It explained that on-the-job training rarely took place since bosses did not want“to invest in casual or transient staff”. Workers were instead expected to skill themselves on their own time even though lan‐ guage barriers mean that they“may not be understanding the training material delivered”. 第一篇 Introduction 1 英语外刊阅读 自霍克和基廷时代以来，各国政府一直欢迎工作场所放松管制，增加灵活性，尽管它们在争夺生 产力过程中削弱了集体谈判和严格的的奖励机制。几乎普遍存