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From: ut-sally!ivan@uunet.UU.NET (Ivan M. Milman)
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Subject: Re: Electronic sweatshops
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Date: 24 Jun 88 02:27:39 GMT
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>From a blurb sheet sent to the Austin Chapter of CPSR:

"The Electronic Sweatshop:  How Computers Are Transforming the Office of the 
Future into the Factory of the Past"
by Barbara Garson.  
Published by Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0-671-53049-6.
$17.95  

Here's a good quote:  "... computer automation downgrades the professional
while it moves control and decision-making higher up the organization.  But
the computer is no more to blame for the electronic sweatshop than the sewing
machine was to blame for the garment sweatshop.  Rather, computers are being
used to serve a mean-spirited management that distrusts human beings and
their idiosyncracies."

Sounds like the flip side to the video "Computers in Context", the Scandinavian
documentary showing how computer technology can help the professional do
a better job instead of replacing her/him.

Ivan





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