Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work by Resnikoff, Jason

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

Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications...
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Author: Jason Resnikoff
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Language: English
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Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work by Resnikoff, Jason

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

¥8,663

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

¥8,663
Author: Jason Resnikoff
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. As Jason Resnikoff shows, the term automation expressed the conviction that industrial progress meant the inevitable abolition of manual labor from industry. But the real substance of the term reflected industry's desire to hide an intensification of human work--and labor's loss of power and protection--behind magnificent machinery and a starry-eyed faith in technological revolution. The rhetorical power of the automation ideology revealed and perpetuated a belief that the idea of freedom was incompatible with the activity of work. From there, political actors ruled out the workplace as a site of politics while some of labor's staunchest allies dismissed sped-up tasks, expanded workloads, and incipient deindustrialization in the name of technological progress.

A forceful intellectual history, Labor's End challenges entrenched assumptions about automation's transformation of the American workplace.



Author: Jason Resnikoff
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 01/18/2022
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780252086298


Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2023

About the Author
Jason Resnikoff is a lecturer in the Department of History at Columbia University.

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