Americans this present day frequently affiliate clinical and technological switch with growth and private health. but beneath our convinced assumptions lie critical questions. In Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? Amy Sue Bix locates the origins of this confusion within the nice melancholy, while social and fiscal obstacle pressured many american citizens to re-evaluate rules approximately technology, expertise, and development. turning out to be worry of "technological unemployment" -- the concept that expanding mechanization displaced human staff -- caused common speak about the that means of development within the new computer Age. In reaction, promoters of expertise fastened a robust public kinfolk crusade: in advertisements, writings, speeches, and global reasonable shows, corporation leaders and favorite scientists and engineers insisted that mechanization finally may make sure American happiness and nationwide success.
Emphasizing the cultural context of the talk, Bix concentrates on public perceptions of labor and technological swap: the controversy over mechanization grew to become on ideology, at the means a variety of observers within the Thirties interpreted the connection among expertise and American growth. even if comparable issues arose in different nations, Bix highlights what was once distinctive concerning the American reaction: "Discussion approximately office change," she argues, "became entwined with specific musings in regards to the which means of yankee heritage, the western frontier, and a feeling of nationwide destiny." In her concluding chapters and epilogue, Bix indicates how the difficulty replaced in the course of international battle II and in postwar the US and brings the controversy ahead to teach its relevance to fashionable readers.
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