Inventing ourselves out of jobs?: America's debate over technological unemployment 1929-1981
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1. Verfasser: Bix, Amy Sue (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins University Press ©2000
Schriftenreihe:Studies in industry and society
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Prologue : technology as progress? -- "Economy of a madhouse" : Entering the Depression-era debate over technological unemployment -- "Finding jobs faster than invention can take them away" : Government's role in the technological unemployment debate -- 'No power on earth can stop improved machinery" : labor's concern about displacement -- "Machinery don't eat" : displacement as a theme in Depression culture -- "The machine has been libeled" : the business community's defense -- "Innocence or guilt of science" : scientists and engineers mobilize to justify mechanization -- "What will the smug machine age do?" : Envisioning past, present, and future as America moves from Depression to war -- "Automation just killed us" : the displacement question in postwar America -- Epilogue : revisiting the technological unemployment debate
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 376 pages)
ISBN:0801862442
080187016X
9780801862441
9780801870163

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