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

• Autore: Resnikoff Jason
• Pubblicazione: Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 251 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 303.48/340973
• Soggetto topico: Labor supply - Effect of automation on - United States; Automation - Social aspects; Labor - United States - History
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Labor's end
• ISBN: 0-252-05321-4; 9780252053214
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815669703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Working class in American history.; Illinois scholarship online.