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Description of  Chasing Automation: The Politics of Technology and Jobs from the Roaring Twenties to the Great Society

Chasing Automation tells the story of how a group of reform-minded politicians during the heyday of America's industrial prowess (19211966) sought to plan for the technological future. Beginning with Warren G. Harding and the Conference he convened in 1921, Jerry Prout looks at how the US political system confronted the unemployment caused by automation. Both liberals and conservatives spoke to the crucial role of technology in economic growth and the need to find work for the unemployed, and Prout shows how their disputes turned on the means of achieving these shared goals and the barriers that stood in the way. Read more