Chasing Automation : The Politics of Technology and Jobs from the Roaring Twenties to the Great Society /

Chasing Automation : The Politics of Technology and Jobs from the Roaring Twenties to the Great Society /

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Chasing Automation tells the story of how a group of reform-minded politicians during the heyday of America's industrial prowess (1921-1966) sought to plan for the technological future. Beginning with Warren G. Harding and the Conference he convened in 1921, Jerry Prout looks at how the US poli...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prout, Jerry (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Labor supply > Effect of technological innovations on > Political aspects > United States
Labor supply > Effect of technological innovations on > United States > History > 20th century
Technological unemployment > Political aspects > United States
Technological unemployment > United States > History > 20th century
Labor History
Political Science & Political History
U.S. History
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
norbert wiener, vannevar bush, history of technological unemployment, job replacing technological unemployment, basic income and automation, national commission of technology
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Seeing Forward
  • 1. Voices for the Unemployed
  • 2. Taming Technology
  • 3. Technology's Triumph
  • 4. Full Employment
  • 5. Automation Arrives
  • 6. Creating a Commission
  • 7. The Automation Commission
  • 8. Bold Solutions
  • Epilogue: Back to the Future
  • Note
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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