LSAT 124 – Section 2 – Question 21

LSAT 124 - Section 2 - Question 21

December 2007

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT124 S2 Q21
+LR
+Exp
Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
A
5%
154
B
3%
154
C
2%
155
D
87%
163
E
4%
156
136
145
153
 +Medium 145.571 +SubsectionMedium

Labor representative: Social historians have shown conclusively that if workers strike when the working conditions at their jobs are poor, those conditions usually significantly improve after five years. Although workers in this industry are familiar with this fact, they nonetheless refuse to strike even though their working conditions are poor.

"Surprising" Phenomenon

Why do workers in “this” industry, which has poor working conditions, refuse to strike even though they know it has been shown that when workers strike while their working conditions are poor their conditions usually improve greatly after five years?

Objective

The correct answer must help explain why the workers in the industry discussed in the stimulus refuse to strike. The correct answer will either address a reason why striking may not help the workers or why the workers can’t or don’t want to strike.

A
Until recently it was widely believed that strikes do not generally improve working conditions.

It doesn’t matter how recently people began believing that strikes improve working conditions. The workers in “this” industry are aware that striking could improve their working conditions after five years, so we want to know why they refuse to strike.

B
Most factories in this industry change ownership every two years.

The turnover rate of factory owners is irrelevant. We want to know why workers in “this” industry refuse to strike even though it has been shown that striking while working conditions are poor generally improves working conditions greatly after five years.

C
Working conditions in many other industries are worse than conditions in this industry.

We’re not concerned with other industries. We want to know why workers in “this” industry refuse to strike.

D
Workers typically plan to work in this industry only three years.

If (D) is true, then workers in “this” industry may not be striking because they don’t think they’ll realize any benefits from striking before leaving the industry.

E
Wages in this industry have increased each year.

Wages in “this” industry are irrelevant. Working conditions are poor, so we want to know why workers in “this” industry refuse to strike even though they know that striking while working conditions are poor tends to lead to better conditions after five years.

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