| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.4

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Canada and the United States

Amy Sue Bix. Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? America's Debate Over Technological Unemployment 1929–1981. (Studies in Industry and Society.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, with the assistance of the Hagley Museum and Library. 2000. Pp. x, 376. $45.00.

In this comprehensive intellectual history of debates about automation and its social consequences in the United States between 1929 and 1981, Amy Sue Bix draws on an exceptionally broad range of primary and secondary sources. Although the nature and extent of technological unemployment can be seen as issues of interest primarily to management, labor, and engineering specialists, Bix rightly understands automation as an issue of enormous cultural and social significance for the entire society. Consequently, she goes beyond the opinions of experts to survey the pronouncements of political leaders, the proceedings of public agencies, the pages of professional trade journals, and the panoply of popular books and magazine articles published over the years addressing the promise and peril of replacing human labor with machines. . . .

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