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Labor's End : How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work.

By: Resnikoff, Jason.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Working Class in American History Ser: Publisher: Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2022Copyright date: �2022Edition: 1st ed.Description: 1 online resource (250 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780252053214.Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 303.48340973 Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "The Machine Tells the Body How to Work": "Automation" and the Postwar Automobile Industry -- 2. The Electronic Brain's Tired Hands: Automation, the Digital Computer, and the Degradation of Clerical Work -- 3. The Liberation of the Leisure Class: Debating Freedom and Work in the 1950s and Early 1960s -- 4. Anticipating Oblivion: The Automation Discourse, Federal Policy, and Collective Bargaining -- 5. Machines of Loving Grace: The New Left Turns Away from Work -- 6. Slaves in Tomorrowland: The Degradation of Domestic Labor and Reproduction -- 7. Where Have All the Robots Gone? From Automation to Humanization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "The Machine Tells the Body How to Work": "Automation" and the Postwar Automobile Industry -- 2. The Electronic Brain's Tired Hands: Automation, the Digital Computer, and the Degradation of Clerical Work -- 3. The Liberation of the Leisure Class: Debating Freedom and Work in the 1950s and Early 1960s -- 4. Anticipating Oblivion: The Automation Discourse, Federal Policy, and Collective Bargaining -- 5. Machines of Loving Grace: The New Left Turns Away from Work -- 6. Slaves in Tomorrowland: The Degradation of Domestic Labor and Reproduction -- 7. Where Have All the Robots Gone? From Automation to Humanization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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