Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!husc6!uwvax!vanvleck!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!jbn@glacier.stanford.edu From: jbn@glacier.stanford.edu (John B. Nagle) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: Working at Home Message-ID: <11166@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 20 Jun 88 17:48:26 GMT Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Stanford University Lines: 11 Approved: skyler@violet.berkeley.edu (Moderator -- Trish Roberts) Comments-to: comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu Submissions-to: comp-women@cs.purdue.edu Have you read "Processed World" magazine? The term "electronic sweatshop" has been used. Think of data entry jobs, with the computer monitoring attendance and performance, as the kind of jobs farmed out in this way. Fortunately it hasn't become popular. John Nagle usenet ucbvax!jade!violet!skyler arpa skyler@violet.berkeley.edu