Chasing automation

• Verfasst von: Prout, Jerry [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Chasing automation
• Titelzusatz: the politics of technology and jobs from the roaring twenties to the Great Society
• Verf.angabe: Jerry Prout
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Verlag: Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
• Jahr: 2022
• Umfang: ix, 275 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-6399-1
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Prout, Jerry: Chasing automation. - Ithaca [New York] : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2022 |(DLC)2021061460
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Prout, Jerry: Chasing Automation. - Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2022. - 1 Online-Ressource (288 p.)
• K10plus-PPN: 178460027X

Abstract

Seeing forward -- Voices for the unemployed -- Taming technology -- Technology's triumph -- Full employment -- Automation arrives -- Creating a commission -- The automation commission -- Bold solutions -- Back to the future.

Abstract

"Chasing Automation describes how in the period from 1921 to 1966, despite the inherent limitations of politics to anticipate the effects of technology on jobs, an eclectic and fragile coalition of reform-minded politicians successfully erected a legal framework that mitigated the worst effects of technological unemployment."