Labor’s End: Automation’s Failed Promise of Freedom

Tales from the Reuther Library
14/07/2022 45 min
Labor’s End: Automation’s Failed Promise of Freedom

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Dr. Jason Resnikoff explains that the rise of automation in the mid-20th century workplace was heralded as a way to free workers from manual labor, but resulted instead in the intensification of human labor and the degradation of workers’ protections and powers. Resnikoff is a core lecturer in the History Department at Columbia University and … Continue reading Labor’s End: Automation’s Failed Promise of Freedom

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