Description: Labor's End : How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work, Paperback by Resnikoff, Jason, ISBN 0252086295, ISBN-13 9780252086298, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK 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 from industry. But the real substance of the term reflected industry's desire to hide an intensification of human work--and labor's loss of power and protection--behind magnificent machinery and a starry-eyed faith in technological revolution. The rhetorical power of the automation ideology revealed and perpetuated a belief that the idea of freedom was incompatible with the activity of work. From there, political actors ruled out the workplace as a site of politics while some of labor's staunchest allies dismissed sped-up tasks, expanded workloads, and incipient deindustrialization in the name of technological progress.
A forceful intellectual history, Labor's End challenges entrenched assumptions about automation's transformation of the American workplace.
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Book Title: Labor's End : How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work
Language: English
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Item Height: 235 mm
Subject: Economics, Safety, History
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Author: Jason Resnikoff
Item Width: 156 mm
Series: Working Class in American History
Format: Paperback
