ABSTRACT
In some cases of automation, fundamental changes have taken place in work content for those people who are still employed on the process. There is a widespread misconception in middle-class intellectual circles that all industrial work is dull. One has only to hear The Critics on the BBC, on the rare occasions when industrial life or factory work come into their discussions, to sample some of the strange beliefs that are held about them. Both work that is too easy and work that is too difficult are frustrating, so that there are two sides to the equation: what talents the job enables a person to use or to develop, and whether he has been selected and trained to be able to meet its demands. There are probably many jobs where flexibility could be greater if one thought about it, where work could be taken home or done at unusual hours.
