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Labor's End
2022,2021
Overview
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.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Subject
ISBN
9780252044250, 0252044258, 9780252053214, 0252053214, 0252086295, 9780252086298
