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Garson, Barbara The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers are Transforming the Office of the Future Into the Factory of the Past 1988 Book Exploitation Clerks, Sweatshop, Automation, Machine, Technology, Factory
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The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers are Transforming the Office of the Future Into the Factory of the Past

by Garson, Barbara (1988)

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Tells how corporations are using automation and expert systems to transform secretaries, executives, and professionals into clerks, and describes examples in businesses and government

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Clerks, Sweatshop, Automation, Machine, Technology, Factory

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