Office Workstations in the Home (1985) / Chapter Skim
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Use and Misuse of Workstations at Home
Use and Misuse of Workstations at Home
Pages 76-84
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There was a very long gap, for example, between the adoption of typewriters and telephones as standard office equipment and the invention of the photocopier. For many decades office work changed little and the tools available to office workers whether clerical, professional, or managerial changed hardly at all.
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They include reduced overhead costs resulting from a need for less office space; reduced capital costs, especially if homeworkers furnish their own terminals; the possibility for greater managerial control; and the expectation that individual productivity might increase. Clearly, businesses would have no interest in this concept unless they expected some real economic advantages.
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A ban on industrial homework done through computer terminals may be viewed by some as "arbitrarily depriving the home workers of the use of his property and personal liberty." In fact, this is the language of a New York State appeals court judge in 1885 when he set aside the first law limiting homework. That same argument has been repeated in every forum considering the abuses of homework, but it has not been persuasive.
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Hine called attention to child labor practices and the miserable conditions found in industrial workshops and sweatshops. Home workshops were considered particularly insidions because of the difficulty in devising and enforcing suitable legislative controls.
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Child labor, hours of work, minimum wage, and even consumer protection laws passed by various states were impossible to enforce as work moved back and forth between home and factory. Eventually, 19 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico passed laws limiting or prohibiting industrial homework.
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Managerial and professional homeworkers tend to be highly paid, possess high status, enjoy payment on a salaried basis and substantially all fringe benefits, are subjected to a low to moderate amount * Electronic Homework: Problems and Prospects From a Human Resources Perspective (report for tutorial seminar LIR 494)
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The 1983 AFL-CTO convention resolution calling for a ban on electronic homework, for example, followed a statement issued over a year earlier by the executive board of the Service Employees international Union (SElU) , which concludes: SEIU believes that leaving the [computer homework]
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Pay and benefit protections. Homeworkers must receive no less than office workers doing comparable work.
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The AFL-CIO is on record for an outright ban of electronic homework. We will work toward that goal unless strong evidence is presented to us that the business community is ready to help develop other workable mechanisms to protect employee rights.
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