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		<title>Work becomes more like prison</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Supermarket chain TESCO is one of a few companies that use high-tech surveillance to track employee productivity]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The human body, with its need for rest, nutrition and hydration, is such an inefficient tool for capitalist production. But while <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/02/lynn-parramore-obsolete-humans-why-elites-want-you-to-fear-the-robot.html">machines are unlikely to replace</a> human workers anytime soon, new technologies can deftly strip workers of their humanity!<br /> <a href="http://www.alternet.org"><img align="left" style="margin: 0 10px 0 0;" src="http://images.salon.com/img/partners/ID_alternetInline.jpg" alt="AlterNet" /></a></p><div>The <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/tesco-accused-of-using-electronic-armbands-to-monitor-its-staff-8493952.html">Irish Independent</a> reports that grocery giant TESCO has strapped electronic armbands to their warehouse workers to measure their productivity, tracking their actions so closely that management knows when they briefly pause to drink from a water fountain or take a bathroom break. These unforgivable lapses in productivity impact workers' performance score, which management then apparently uses to terrify them into working faster.</div><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/02/19/work_becomes_more_like_prison/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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