The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers are Transforming the Office of the Future

by Barbara Garson

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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.

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Barbara Garson is the author of the play MacBird!, as well as two classic books about work, All the Livelong Day and The Electronic Sweatshop. Her other plays include Security and the Obie Award-winning children's play The Dinosaur Door. She has written for The New York Times, Harpers, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, show more and Newsweek. For her nonfiction, journalism, and playwriting, she has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a National Press Club Citation. She lives in New York City show less

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Nonfiction, Technology, Sociology, Business, Economics
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651.8Applied science & technologyManagement & public relationsOffice servicesComputer Applications
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HF5548 .G37Social sciencesCommerceCommerceBusinessIndustrial psychology
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