Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance

by David F. Noble

Overview

A provocative discussion of the role of technology and its accompanying rhetoric of limitless progress in the concomitant rise of joblessness and unemployment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781926662299
Publisher:	Between the Lines
Publication date:	05/02/1995
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	184
File size:	642 KB

About the Author

David Franklin Noble (July 22, 1945 – December 27, 2010) was a critical historian of technology, science and education, best known for his groundbreaking work on the social history of automation. In his final years he taught in the Division of Social Science, and the department of Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto. Noble held positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Smithsonian Institution and Drexel University, as well as many visiting professorships.

Table of 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

Editorial Reviews

"Progress Without People is a lucid and masterful portrayal of what is happening in the real world of state-corporate power, and what it means for the people of the world."
— Noam Chomsky

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