Labor's End

Labor's End

How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work

Resnikoff, Jason

University of Illinois Press

01/2022

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9780252044250

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Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1. "The Machine Tells the Body How to Work": "Automation" and the Postwar Automobile Industry 15

2. The Electronic Brain's Tired Hands: Automation, the Digital Computer, and the Degradation of Clerical Work 39

3. The Liberation of the Leisure Class: Debating Freedom and Work in the 1950s and Early 1960s 64

4. Anticipating Oblivion: The Automation Discourse, Federal Policy, and Collective Bargaining 89

5. Machines of Loving Grace: The New Left Turns Away from Work 114

6. Slaves in Tomorrowland: The Degradation of Domestic Labor and Reproduction 136

7. Where Have All the Robots Gone? From Automation to Humanization 160

Conclusion 187

Notes 193

Bibliography 221

Index 241
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automation; labor; technology; mechanization; unemployment; history; postwar; computers; speed-up; utopia; workers' control; disruption; capitalism; automobile industry; Ford; UAW; Simon Owens; John Diebold; information; clerical work; leisure; Hannah Arendt; C. Wright Mills; ILGWU; UPWA; retraining; ERAP; SDS; James Boggs; Triple Revolution; Black liberation; Betty Friedan; Shulamith Firestone; Johnnie Tillmon; feminism; Nation Welfare Rights Organization; reproductive labor; Family Assistance Program; robots; Lordstown; work ethic; strike; humanization; Amazon; Google; ghost work; gig work; artificial intelligence