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Chasing automation : the politics of technology and jobs from the roaring twenties to the Great Society / Jerry Prout.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prout, Jerry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technological unemployment--History--United States--20th century.
- Technological unemployment.
- Labor supply--Political aspects--United States.
- Labor supply.
- Labor supply--Effect of technological innovations on--United States.
- Technological unemployment--Political aspects--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, New York : Northern Illinois University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Chasing Automation describes how in the period from 1921 to 1966, despite the inherent limitations of politics to anticipate the effects of technology on jobs, an eclectic and fragile coalition of reform-minded politicians successfully erected a legal framework that mitigated the worst effects of technological unemployment"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Seeing forward
- Voices for the unemployed
- Taming technology
- Technology's triumph
- Full employment
- Automation arrives
- Creating a commission
- The automation commission
- Bold solutions
- Back to the future.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501764011
- 1501764012
- OCLC:
- 1328132782
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