Labor's end : how the promise of automation degraded work /
"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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2021]
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Series: | Working class in American history.
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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.