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Automation of the White Collar Job.

Writer Barbara Garson. Her writing includes the anti-war (Vietnam) play MacBird! and the book All the Livelong Day, a study of the blue-collar life of the assembly line. Her latest book, The Electronic Sweatshop, explores white collar automation - the way computers are being used to transform secretaries, executives and professionals into clerks.

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Other segments from the episode on June 1, 1988

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, June 1, 1988: Interview with Paul Theroux; Review of Arvo Part's album "Arbos"; Interview with Barbara Garson; Commentary on the language of talking computers.

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