Tales from the Reuther Library

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 author of Labor’s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work.

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Labor’s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work

Episode Credits

Producers: Dan Golodner and Troy Eller English
Interviewee: Jason Resnikoff
Music: Bart Bealmear

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Tales from the Reuther LibraryBy Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

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