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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Resnikoff, Jason, author.

Series:

Working class in American history.

Illinois scholarship online.

The working class in American history

Illinois scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor supply--Effect of automation on--United States.

Labor supply.

Automation--Social aspects.

Automation.

Labor--United States--History.

Labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 251 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]

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.

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.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 12, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Resnikoff, Jason Labor's End

ISBN:

9780252053214

0252053214

OCLC:

1257313791