I've been reading a 1988 text by Barbara Garson, "The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers Are Transforming the Office of the Future into the Factory of the Past" - it's a series of interviews about primitive bossware, metric tracking and computerized middle management that effects a robbing of personal agency and deskilling of labor through various means of minuscule tracking ... 1988. Taylorism is old and it's coming for you.
The book is fine btw... Not the greatest but fairly prescient
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I've been reading a 1988 text by Barbara Garson, "The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers Are Transforming the Office of the Future into the Factory of the Past" - it's a series of interviews about primitive bossware, metric tracking and computerized middle management that effects a robbing of personal agency and deskilling of labor through various means of minuscule tracking ... 1988. Taylorism is old and it's coming for you.
The book is fine btw... Not the greatest but fairly prescient