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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815669703321

Autore

Resnikoff Jason

Titolo

Labor's end : how the promise of automation degraded work / / Jason Resnikoff [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-252-05321-4

9780252053214

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 251 pages) : illustrations

Collana

The working class in American history

Illinois scholarship online

Disciplina

303.48/340973

Soggetti

Labor supply - Effect of automation on - United States

Automation - Social aspects

Labor - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Also issued in print: 2021.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

'Labor's End' traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life.