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Autore |
Resnikoff Jason |
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Titolo |
Labor's end : how the promise of automation degraded work / / Jason Resnikoff [[electronic resource]] |
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Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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ISBN |
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0-252-05321-4 |
9780252053214 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 251 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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The working class in American history |
Illinois scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Labor supply - Effect of automation on - United States |
Automation - Social aspects |
Labor - United States - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Also issued in print: 2021. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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