Anatomy of Work: Labor, Leisure, and the Implications of Automation (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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My companion stopped for a while in front of a young workman, who with a few stereotyped motions was punching holes in the plates of watches brought to him every ten seconds on a mechanical belt. 'you see,' he said after a moment's thought, 'here the man is bigger than his job.' This remark could very well have served as the title of this short book. While not neglecting, as will be seen, any of the more general and complex kinds of work which our industrial society still demands, and even in certain sectors tends to increase, what follows is particularly concerned with those occupations, now highly sub divided by the progress of technology, which are much too limited in scope to involve the worker's whole personality, however much his intellectual needs and personal ambitions may have been restricted by his upbringing and social environment. All those engaged in such work, and there are still tens of millions, indeed perhaps hundreds of millions of them in different parts of the world, are 'bigger than their jobs'; those repetitive and frag mentary operations of all kinds, performed in factories, in mines.

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