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Feeding a machine without knowing its purpose deadens a worker's intellectual and moral life
Drawn from what Jane Addams said
What Jane Addams actually said
- Jane Addams American social reformer and founder of Hull House (1860 to 1935)
Feeding a machine with a material of which he has no knowledge, producing a product, totally unrelated to the rest of his life, without in the least knowing what becomes of it, or its connection with the community, is, of course, unquestionably deadening to his intellectual and moral life.
Where this was said
↗Democracy and Social Ethics (1902)gutenberg.org
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