Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?
America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929--1981 (Studies in Industry and Society)
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Word Count
98,000 words, Guess
Page Count
392 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7870518M
- ISBN-139780801862441
- ISBN-100801862442
- OCLC Control Number41548405
- OCLC Control Numberinventingourselv0000bixa
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99032829
- Goodreads4075983
- LibraryThing517726
Classifications
- LCCHD6331.2.U5 B59 2000
Description
"Americans today often associate scientific and technological change with national progress and personal well-being. Yet underneath such confident assumptions, serious questions about the direction and social implications of scientific and technological change persist. In Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? Amy Sue Bix locates the origins of such conflict in the Great Depression of the 1930s, when the country's social and economic crisis forced many Americans to re-examine ideas about science, technology, and progress."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
WHEN PRESENT-DAY OBSERVERS look for historical references to technological unemployment, Luddism, the protest movement British workers mounted during the early nineteenth century's Industrial Revolution, instantly comes to mind.
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- Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929--1981 (Studies in Industry and Society)
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