result of productivity growth (assumed to reflect automation) and are part of a long-term trend. Since the 1980s, however … capture many factors besides automation, and cautions against using descriptive evidence to draw causal inferences. It also … employment in the 2000s, but finds little evidence of a causal link to automation. …

The machine tells the body how to work: "automation" and the postwar automobile industry -- The electronic brain …'s tired hands: automation, the digital computer, and the degradation of clerical work -- The liberation of the leisure class …: debating freedom and work in the 1950s and early 1960s -- Anticipating oblivion: the automation discourse, federal policy, and …