Statistics alone cannot reveal the width of the ongoing economic change, because the nature of work itself_________ .

C
逻辑推理题。根据文章第二段第四句话的后半部分“because it is also giving rise to a radical new way of thinking about the nature of work itself．”(对工作性质本身的思考已经产生了一种新的方式。)可知C项“is receiving much radical consideration”最接近文中的话，A、B、D三项在文中均不合题意。