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100 1 $aBix, Amy Sue.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99041719
245 10 $aInventing ourselves out of jobs? :$bAmerica's debate over technological unemployment, 1929-1981 /$cAmy Sue Bix.
260 $aBaltimore, Md. :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c2000.
300 $ax, 376 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
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490 1 $aStudies in industry and society
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tPrologue: Technology as Progress? --$g1.$t"Economy of Madhouse": Entering the Depression-Era Debate over Technological Unemployment --$g2.$t"Finding Jobs Faster Than Invention Can Take Them Away": Government's Role in the Technological Unemployment Debate --$g3.$t"No Power on Earth Can Stop Improved Machinery": Labor's Concern about Displacement --$g4.$t"Machinery Don't Eat": Displacement as a Theme in Depression Culture --$g5.$t"The Machine Has Been Libeled": The Business Community's Defense --$g6.$t"Innocence or Guilt of Science": Scientists and Engineers Mobilize to Justify Mechanization --$g7.$t"What Will the Smug Machine Age Do?": Envisioning Past, Present, and Future as America Moves from Depression to War --$g8.$t"Automation Just Killed Us": The Displacement Question in Postwar America --$tEpilogue: Revisiting the Technological Unemployment Debate.
520 1 $a"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?
520 8 $aAmy 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.
650 0 $aTechnological unemployment$zUnited States$xHistory.
830 0 $aStudies in industry and society.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42023902
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