Inventing ourselves out of jobs? : America's debate over technological unemployment, 1929-1981 /
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Studies in industry and society.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.