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Political Science Labor & Industrial Relations

Progress Without People

New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance

by (author) David F. Noble

Publisher
Between the Lines
Initial publish date
May 1995
Category
Labor & Industrial Relations, Labor, Automation
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781896357003
    Publish Date
    May 1995
    List Price
    $19.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781926662299
    Publish Date
    May 1995
    List Price
    $18.99

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

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.

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