Progress Without People
New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance
Published on 2. May 1995
184 pages
978-1-926662-29-9 (ISBN)
Description
A provocative discussion of the role of technology and its accompanying rhetoric of limitless progress in the concomitant rise of joblessness and unemployment.
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In America by Design, A World without Women, The Religion of Technology, and Digital Diploma Mills (BTL, 2002), David F. Noble has reshaped our understanding of the evolution of technology, religion, and education.
Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One: Another Look at Progress
- 1: In Defence of Luddism
- 2: The Machinery Question Revisited
- 3: Present-Tense Technology
- Part Two: Automation Madness: Or, the Unautomatic History of Automation
- 4: Automatic Technological Progress
- 5: A Second Look at Social Progress
- 6: The Hearings on Industrial Policy: A Statement
- 7: The Religion of Technology: The Myth of a Masculine Millennium
- Appendices
- I: Nineteenth-Century Consultant to Industry Saw Automation as Weaponry
- II: Karl Marx against the Luddites
- III: A Technology Bill of Rights from the International Association of Machinists
- IV: "Starvin' in Paradise" with the New Technology
- V: Lord Byron Speaks against a Bill to Introduce the Death Penalty for Machine-Breaking
- VI: An Exchange between Norbert Wiener, Father of Cybernetics, and Walter Reuther, UAW President
- A Note on the Author
