{"product_id":"labors-end-jason-resnikoff-9780252086298","title":"Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work","description":"\u003ci\u003eLabor's End\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eautomation\u003c\/i\u003e 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 starry-eyed faith in technological revolution. The rhetorical power of the automation ideology revealed and perpetuated a belief that the idea of freedom was incompatible with the activity of work. From there, political actors ruled out the workplace as a site of politics while some of labor's staunchest allies dismissed sped-up tasks, expanded workloads, and incipient deindustrialization in the name of technological progress. \u003cp\u003eA forceful intellectual history, \u003ci\u003eLabor's End\u003c\/i\u003e challenges entrenched assumptions about automation's transformation of the American workplace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jason Resnikoff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252086295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252086298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2023","brand":"Jason Resnikoff","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993811747071,"sku":"9780252086298","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c097ceb7-ad1c-4b4c-a378-1c3a8a9d9902.jpg?v=1683326457","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/labors-end-jason-resnikoff-9780252086298","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}