Labor’s End: Automation’s Failed Promise of Freedom

Dr. Jason Resnikoff explains that the rise of automation in the mid-20th century workplace was heralded as a way to free workers from manual labor, but resulted instead in the intensification of human labor and the degradation of workers’ protections and powers. Resnikoff is a core lecturer in the History Department at Columbia University and author of Labor’s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work. Related Collections: UAW archival collections Detroit Revolutionary Movements Records James and Grace Lee Boggs Papers Related Resources: Labor’s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work Episode Credits Producers: Dan Golodner and Troy Eller English Interviewee: Jason Resnikoff Music: Bart Bealmear