Labor's end : how the promise of automation degraded work
- Author/Creator:
- Resnikoff, Jason, author
- Publication/Creation:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Labor's end : how the promise of automation degraded work / Jason Resnikoff
- Series Titles:
- The working class in American history
Illinois scholarship online
Working class in American history.
Illinois scholarship online.
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Labor supply--Effect of automation on--United States
Automation--Social aspects
Labor--United States--History
Description/Summary
- 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.
- Summary:
- 'Labor's End' traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 251 pages) : illustrations
- General Note:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9937448360202486
- ISBN:
- 0-252-05321-4
9780252053214 - OCLC Number:
- 1257313791
1289372929
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