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Labor's End - How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work (Paperback)
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Labor's End - How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work (Paperback)
Series: Working Class in American History
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Loot Price R563
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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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