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In Kuala Lumpur cranes stretch outward among the gleaming towers in a perpetual construction boom powered by foreign investment.
In Kuala Lumpur cranes stretch outward among the gleaming towers in a perpetual construction boom powered by foreign investment.
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2020-01-09
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In Kuala Lumpur cranes stretch outward among the gleaming towers in a perpetual construction boom powered by foreign investment. The streets are spotless and well policed, the water is clean, and the politics are relatively stable. Consumers around the world benefit from products like mobile devices, circuit boards, and LED screens.
At the heart of this economic success are migrant workers. From Bangladesh, Nepal, the Philippines , Indonesia, and India, they arrive at Kuala Lumpur International Airport by the scoreful, papers in hand, hoping for a better life. Estimates of the number of foreign workers in Malaysia vary widely, from the government’s count of almost 1. 8 million to perhaps twice as many, which would amount to a quarter of the country’s workforce. Migrant-worker advocates estimate one-third of those workers are undocumented. Many foreign workers believe "Malaysia is the land of milk and honey," said Joseph Paul Maliamauv, of Tenaganita, a workers’-rights organization, when I met him at the group’s office in Petaling Jaya, a suburb on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. " They come out there, and think the streets are paved with gold. "
But upon arrival, migrants find this paradise doesn’t extend to them. Malaysia is "a booming economy and one of the most developed economies, multicultural and multinational, with a huge amount of foreign investment," said David Welsh of the Solidarity Center, an affiliate of the labor group AFL-CIO, when I met him in Kuala Lumpur. " But in a region plagued with human-rights abuses and labor abuses, Malaysia is in many ways transparently the regional leader. "
Malaysia provides a window: a flow of humans that shapes lives, creates the world’s things, and is built on the availability of a massive, inexpensive, and flexible labor supply. In Malaysia, it’s possible to see what maintains that flow; the recruitment strategies that bring workers to factories, the government policies that are so ineffective at protecting workers, the struggle to improve working conditions up and down supply chains, and the global political and economic realities that sustain the demand for cheap work.
In 2014, the watchdog organization Verite released a study on migrant workers in the electronics sector in Malaysia. Among a sample of more than 400 foreign electronics workers, at least 32 percent were, by Verite’s definition, forced to work against their will. According to the report, "these results suggest that
forced labor is present in the Malaysian electronics industry in more than isolated incidents
, and can indeed be characterized as widespread. "
Which of the following is NOT what you can see in Malaysia?
选项
A、The government policies that can’t protect workers.
B、A paradise with streets paved with gold.
C、The global economic realities demanding for cheap work.
D、The struggle to improve working conditions along supply chains.
答案
B
解析
细节题。根据题干和选项可以定位到第四段后半部分。[A]“政府的政策不能保护工人”提到了;[C]“全球经济需要廉价劳动力的现实”也提到了;[D]“改善供应链上下工作条件的斗争”也提到了,是对于原文内容的改写。只有[B]“街道都是用金子铺就的”是工人自己的想象,不是真实可以在马来西亚看到的,因此答案为[B]。
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