Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance
- ISBN-10
- 1896357008
- ISBN-13
- 9781896357003
- Category
- Automation
- Pages
- 166
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995-01-01
- Publisher
- Between the Lines
- Author
- David F. Noble
Description
A provocative discussion of the role of technology and its accompanying rhetoric of limitless progress in the concomitant rise of joblessness and unemployment.
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- 1995-05-01
- 184 pages
- Ebook
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- 1993
- 145 pages
- Paperback
- Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company
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