劳动的终结：自动化的承诺如何降低工作效率

《劳动的终结》追溯了围绕自动化的论述，从自动化起源于工厂，到自动化在政治和社会生活中的广泛影响。正如杰森·雷斯尼科夫（Jason Resnikoff）所说，自动化一词表达了这样一种信念：工业进步意味着不可避免地从工业中废除体力劳动。但这个词的真正实质反映了工业界的愿望，即在华丽的机器和对技术革命的狂热信念背后隐藏人类劳动的加剧——以及劳动力失去权力和保护的情况。自动化意识形态的修辞力量揭示并延续了一种信念，即自由的理念与工作的活动是不相容的。从那以后，政治行动者排除了工作场所作为政治场所的可能性，而工党的一些最坚定盟友则以技术进步的名义，对加速任务、扩大工作量和初期的去工业化不屑一顾。
《劳动的终结》是一部强有力的思想史，它挑战了关于自动化改变美国工作场所的根深蒂固的假设。
Labor’s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work
Labor’s End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. As Jason Resnikoff shows, the term automation expressed the conviction that industrial progress meant the inevitable abolition of manual labor from industry. But the real substance of the term reflected industry’s desire to hide an intensification of human work–and labor’s loss of power and protection–behind magnificent machinery and a starry-eyed faith in technological revolution. The rhetorical power of the automation ideology revealed and perpetuated a belief that the idea of freedom was incompatible with the activity of work. From there, political actors ruled out the workplace as a site of politics while some of labor’s staunchest allies dismissed sped-up tasks, expanded workloads, and incipient deindustrialization in the name of technological progress.
A forceful intellectual history, Labor’s End challenges entrenched assumptions about automation’s transformation of the American workplace.

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