Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?
Subtitle: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929--1981 (Studies in Industry and Society)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: January 24, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780801862441
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Employment & unemployment; Impact of science & technology on society; Social history; United States - General; Technological unemployment; Technology And Society; Unemployment; Technology; Business / Economics / Finance; United States; History: American; USA; Human Resources & Personnel Management; Labor; History / United States / General; History; General
First sentence: WHEN PRESENT-DAY OBSERVERS look for historical references to technological unemployment, Luddism, the protest movement British workers mounted during the early nineteenth century's Industrial Revolution, instantly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.
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.