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How corporations steal your time.

Publication: New Internationalist
Publication Date: 01-MAR-02
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: How corporations steal your time.(Brief Article)

Article Excerpt
CLASSIC CORPORATE TIME-STEALING comes in the guise of 'selling our soul to the company store', as the old song goes. Since the dawn of industrialization employers have sought to control and wring maximum effort from their employees' time. But these 'days corporate time-grabbing extends way beyond the workplace.

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