In studying the personality, attitude and subjective feelings of 33 female operators regarding their jobs, the following is concluded: that workers with specific identifiable attributes are more suited for machine-paced work than people having different attributes; attributes of people most suited for self-paced work are also identified. These attributes are detailed and discussed.
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