How Are Strictly Controlled Workers Within Bureaucracies Different from Robots

question 96

Multiple Choice

How are strictly controlled workers within bureaucracies different from robots?

• A) Human workers need forms of upkeep.
• B) Human workers can resist and undermine the bureaucratic restraints that limit their autonomy.
• C) Human workers are more reliable.
• D) Human workers are cheaper.

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Definitions:

Amistad Case

A landmark 1841 United States Supreme Court case involving the mutiny by Africans on the Spanish slave ship Amistad, pivotal in the American abolition movement.

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Task System

A labor system in which enslaved individuals were assigned a particular task to complete each day, after which they had some control over their time.

Work Stoppages

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