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The electronic sweatshop : how computers are transforming the office of the future into the factory of the past

Title
  1. The electronic sweatshop : how computers are transforming the office of the future into the factory of the past / Barbara Garson.
Published by
  1. New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1988.
Author
  1. Garson, Barbara.

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Description
  1. 288 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  1. Based on interviews with an employee in a fast food outlet, an airline reservations clerk, a social worker, a stockbroker and other office workers or managers using computers.
Subject
  1. Office practice > Automation
  2. Business > Data processing
  3. Clerks > Effect of automation on
  4. Professional employees > Effect of automation on
  5. Office Automation
  6. Business > Data processing
  7. Clerks > Effect of automation on
  8. Office practice > Automation
  9. Professional employees > Effect of automation on
  10. office
  11. computerization
  12. working conditions
  13. fast food
  14. catering
  15. office worker
  16. performance appraisal
  17. job satisfaction
  18. work organization
  19. skill obsolescence
  20. expert system
  21. bureau
  22. informatisation
  23. conditions de travail
  24. restauration rapide
  25. restauration
  26. employé de bureau
  27. appréciation des performances
  28. satisfaction au travail
  29. organisation du travail
  30. obsolescence des qualifications
  31. système expert
  32. oficina
  33. computerización
  34. condiciones de trabajo
  35. restauración rápida
  36. restauración
  37. empleado de oficina
  38. apreciación de la actuación
  39. satisfacción en el trabajo
  40. organización del trabajo
  41. obsolescencia de calificaciones
  42. sistema experto
  43. USA
  44. Etats-Unis
  45. Estados Unidos
Genre/Form
  1. case study.
  2. reference.
  3. étude de cas.
  4. référence bibliographique.
  5. estudio de casos.
  6. referencia.
Contents
  1. With McDonald's -- we do it all for you -- With reservations -- the automated social worker -- The Machine will see you now -- The Wall Street broker:decline of a salesman -- Manufactured advice -- The future of monogamy in the office -- Electronic surveillance -- Piecework professionals -- command and control.
Note
  1. Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. [271]-273.