{"product_id":"a-will-for-the-machine-mark-sanders-9780226844619","title":"A Will for the Machine: Computerization, Automation, and the Arts in South Africa","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis study takes up the relations among computerization, labor, and the arts in South Africa.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e There are many books about the history and discourses of computerization in the United States but relatively little about these phenomena anywhere in the Global South. In \u003ci\u003eA Will for the Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, Mark Sanders outlines South Africa's entry into the computer age in the 1960s and '70s and explains how it coincided with the high point of apartheid. South Africa's government viewed automation and computerization as one way of barring Black Africans from skilled work and reserving it for whites. Sanders unpacks this peculiar history, relates it to early twentieth-century struggles around mechanization in mining and telephony in South Africa, and analyzes responses to it by the writers Miriam Tlali (1933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Sanders\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226844617\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226844619\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/26\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Mark Sanders","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46927737356543,"sku":"9780226844619","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_45c7b48c-6d7d-4c88-b9e7-cb5b6c6b51de.jpg?v=1749372807","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-will-for-the-machine-mark-sanders-9780226844619","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}