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Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work (Working Class in American History) by Jason Resnikoff is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<i>Labor's End</i> 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 <i>automation</i> 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
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- Author
- Jason Resnikoff
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press ProQuest
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780252044250
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Management
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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