temporary workers. Since occupations have become more simplified due to automation and breaking down jobs into step by step processes, it is not necessary for companies to rely on a skilled employees anymore. Thus workers have become disposable. This trend can be seen from blue-collar workers at McDonald’s to professors and instructors at universities. The only individuals not effected by this are senior managers who are to blame for these hiring tactics.In chapter ten Garson examines the highest level of occupations. Decision-making and management is also being automated. The author shows this with examples from the Department of Defense that is using computer programs to calculate war tactics. The military uses automated control centers far away from a crisis area in order to control battlefields around the world.In her conclusion Barbara Garson argues that she finds it hard for us to undo the process of automation since supervisors and big companies assume that their employees are “lazy, stupid, and hostile”. However, she believes that we must protest and resist “the electronic sweatshop”In chapter on Juliet Schor portrays how our country has doubled productivity per capita since the 1940’s and we are still continuing to work even more. She believes that we should be compensated for the increase in productivity with more paid time off work. Schor briefly describes several aspects of this increase in work hours such as the fact that we are neglecting our children due to work, or that the increase in consumption has put us in dept. Chapter two examines the consequences of the increase of working hours. Schor argues that Americans are now working one month per year more than they did fifty years ago. Furthermore, there are more females in the work force and employees are forced to put in over-time at jobs they might be fired from due to declines in market demand. Additionally, due to the increase in ...
