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Barbara Garson discusses her book "The Electronic Sweatshop"

BROADCAST: Jun. 16, 1988 | DURATION: 00:52:48

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Synopsis

According to Barbara Garson's book, "The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers are Transforming the Office of the Future into the Factory of the Past," companies are trying to make jobs so simple, as a result, kids in jobs are as replaceable as paper plates. Some companies don't want their employees to have to think but rather they need them to push buttons on machinery to get jobs accomplished.