Labor's end : how the promise of automation degraded work /

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"Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. As Jason Resnikoff shows, the term automation expressed the conviction that industrial progress meant the inevitable abolition of manual labor...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Resnikoff, Jason (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
Series:Working class in American history.
Subjects:
Labor supply > Effect of automation on > United States.
Occupational training > United States.
Automation > Social aspects.
Labor > United States > History.
Marché du travail > Effets de l'automatisation sur > États-Unis.
Automatisation > Aspect social.
Travail > États-Unis > Histoire.
HISTORY / General
Labor.
Labor supply > Effect of automation on.
Occupational training.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The machine tells the body how to work: "automation" and the postwar automobile industry
  • The electronic brain's tired hands: automation, the digital computer, and the degradation of clerical work
  • The liberation of the leisure class: debating freedom and work in the 1950s and early 1960s
  • Anticipating oblivion: the automation discourse, federal policy, and collective bargaining
  • Machines of loving grace: the new left turns away from work
  • Slaves in tomorrowland: the degradation of domestic labor and reproduction
  • Where have all the robots gone? From automation to humanization.

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