Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? - America''s Debate Over Technological Unemployment, 19291981

Informationen zum Autor Amy Sue Bix is an associate professor of history at Iowa State University. Klappentext Americans today often associate scientific and technological change with progress and personal well-being. Yet underneath our confident assumptions lie serious questions. In Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? Amy Sue Bix locates the origins of this confusion in the Great Depression, when social and economic crisis forced many Americans to re-examine ideas about science, technology, and progress. Growing fear of "technological unemployment" -- the idea that increasing mechanization displaced human workers -- prompted widespread talk about the meaning of progress in the new Machine Age. In response, promoters of technology mounted a powerful public relations campaign: in advertising, writings, speeches, and World Fair exhibits, company leaders and prominent scientists and engineers insisted that mechanization ultimately would ensure American happiness and national success.

Product details

• Authors: Amy Bix, Amy Sue Bix, Amy Sue (Iowa State University) Bix
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.2002
• EAN: 9780801869136
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-6913-6
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Studies in Industry and Societ; Studies in Industry and Society; Studies in Industry and Societ
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Advertising, marketing; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, 20th Century, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, Labour / income economics, United States of America, USA, Sociology: work & labour, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Sociology: work and labour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Employment & Unemployment