Labor's End
Labor's End
How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work
Resnikoff, Jason
University of Illinois Press
01/2022
272
Dura
Inglês
9780252044250
15 a 20 dias
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
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