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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 | 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 | ||
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| + | I actually had a phone answering job where when you would answer telephone calls the phone would “beep” and then the customer would be there. It brought me back to this time where our phone system was the latest and greatest technology, now it’s 10x better. Now automation has taken over and getting a “real” person on the other end has become difficult. I also really never thought about how difficult it was for African American women to break into the workforce. I also found it interesting that white women were the majority of workers at the telephone company, not just for a couple of years, but a couple of decades. ---Pam Petzold | ||
