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The Green reading about the Bell System reminds me of the readings about the factories and workers. In the factories the workers were basically extensions of the machines they were overseeing. Green mentions, “The TSP operator really functioned as an adjunct to a machine rather than as controller of machinery” (258). So the Bell System found a way to exploit African American women in two ways: putting them in low status jobs, and putting them in jobs that are mechanical in nature. –Samantha W. | The Green reading about the Bell System reminds me of the readings about the factories and workers. In the factories the workers were basically extensions of the machines they were overseeing. Green mentions, “The TSP operator really functioned as an adjunct to a machine rather than as controller of machinery” (258). So the Bell System found a way to exploit African American women in two ways: putting them in low status jobs, and putting them in jobs that are mechanical in nature. –Samantha W. | ||
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| + | It is interesting to note the idea that African American women should stay at the bottom of the heirachial ladder. They were given no credit at all for there intelligence, and they couldn't even be trained properly since white women refused to train them. On page 264, it states clearly that these women were hired as cheap labor and into positions that were technologically obsolete. These women were not allowed to reach their potential just based on society's judgement as a whole, which shows how society's views and morals impacted the work place especially in a service industry. They were also segregated and not allowed to reach management positions, which again is society's role in the workplace. It is baffling how the interviewee in the section had no facts about African American women's intelligence, but thought it was fair to treat his workers the way he did. -Patrick Kramer | ||
