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University of Illinois Press Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work (Working Class in American History)

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Review "Labor's End not only shows how the automation discourse was and is mystifying but also demonstrates the political consequences of its adoption on the Right and the Left. There is no technological fix for the political problems of work, Resnikoff reminds us. . . . Labor's End will be seen by future historians as a book that freshly reinterpreted the past to inform the politics of the present." --H-Sci-Med-Tech"Resnikoff's forceful and coherent argument reveals that automation was not a technological process but an ideology which equated freedom with freedom from work and downplayed the workplace as a site of politics. As he convincingly shows, automation largely did not lead to a reduction in labor but rather to speedup, work intensification, and the degradation of labor, creating a huge chasm between the grandiose claims made about an automated future and the lived reality of workers."--Joshua Freeman, author of Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World Product Description Labor\x27s 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\x27s desire to hide an intensification of human work\-\-and labor\x27s 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\x27s staunchest allies dismissed sped\-up tasks, expanded workloads, and incipient deindustrialization in the name of technological progress. A forceful intellectual history, Labor\x27s End challenges entrenched assumptions about automation\x27s transformation of the American workplace. About the Author Jason Resnikoff is a lecturer in the Department of History at Columbia University.

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Brand: University of Illinois Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0252044258
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Biographies & Histories > Business & Economic History
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Release Date: 18 January 2022
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