Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!agate!ut-sally!ivan@uunet.UU.NET From: ut-sally!ivan@uunet.UU.NET (Ivan M. Milman) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: Electronic sweatshops Message-ID: <11341@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 24 Jun 88 02:27:39 GMT References: <11255@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 29 Approved: skyler@violet.berkeley.edu (Moderator -- Trish Roberts) Comments-to: comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu Submissions-to: comp-women@cs.purdue.edu >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 -- Ivan Milman: ivan@sally.utexas.edu or {ihnp4,ctvax,seismo}!ut-sally!ivan "Basic research is what I do when I don't know what I'm doing." - Werner Braun