Wave of the future?

[alwaysinasnit]

If you think that Walmart is a horrible employer, read this. I urge you to please think about what this means for the workers before you order from Amazon.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/amazon-wristbands-track-workers-hand-movements-employers-increasingly-treating-employees-like-robots/

[MineralMan]

1. In order to fight this, you have to be willing to pay a little more

for stuff. The same crap goes on at all price-based major retailers. They all treat their employees like crap. Shop local. You'll spend more, but you won't be supporting that kind of treatment.

Both Walmart and Amazon exploit their employees. All the big retailers do.

[HAB911]

2. Nothing new really

AT & T/Western Electric were masters of the art of time and motion studies at the beginning of last century. Technology will make it in real time.

Any company controlling many thousand workers…tends…to lack any satisfactory criterion of the actual value of its methods of dealing with people.
—Elton Mayo, Professor of Industrial Management, Harvard Business School, 1933

Construction of the Western Electric Hawthorne Works on over 100 acres in Cicero, Illinois, began in 1905. By 1929 more than 40,000 men and women reported to work at the massive plant, which included offices, factories, a hospital, fire brigade, laundry facilities, and a greenhouse. Employees were assigned to precisely measured tasks in highly specialized departments, from switchboard wiring to punch-and-die tool making. The manufacture of some equipment, such as automatic telephone exchanges, required hundreds of separate assembly and inspection operations, and Western Electric became one of the forerunners in applying scientific management (inspired in part by Frederick Taylor’s time and motion studies) to its production units.

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. Amazon Is A Modern Day Sweatshop. I Worked For DOL So I Know Them For What They Are.

In fact a good many employers run sweatshops now. That includes white collar employers, professional employers et al. The over al labor conditions have gone down hill since Reagan.

[HAB911]

4. Product of the death of unions

[TheMastersNemesis]

5. Exactly. And The Erosion Of Labor Law Enforcement.