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Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981

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Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

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 unemplo...