...Timothy Messer-Kruse This article examines the relationship between the adoption of new technology and the decline of child labor in the Progressive Era by closely examining the impact automated bottle machines had on child labor in the U.S. glass industry. Historians have largely assumed...

... or contemp “That Was a Dirty Job!” Technology and Workplace Hazards in Meatpacking over the Long Twentieth Century Roger Horowitz Meatpacking has long been one of America’s most dangerous industries. The ubiq- uitous presence of knives, the severe temperature contrasts...

...Stephen L. McIntyre Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America Borg Kevin L. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2007 viii + 249 pp. , $50.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper) © 2011 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2011...

...Ken Fones-Wolf The Glass House Boys of Pittsburgh: Law, Technology, and Child Labor Flannery James L. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2009 xviii + 224 pp. , $35.00 (cloth) © 2011 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2011...

...Susan Levine Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation Roger Horowitz Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 xiii + 192 pp., $35.00 (cloth); $19.00 (paper) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2007 BOOK REVIEWS Every Man a Speculator...

... to be frustrating for scholars in the future. A. Tom Grunfeld, Empire State College/SUNY DOI 10.1215/15476715-2008-037 Book Reviews     125 Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America David R. Meyer Baltimore...

... to be frustrating for scholars in the future. A. Tom Grunfeld, Empire State College/SUNY DOI 10.1215/15476715-2008-037 Book Reviews     125 Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America David R. Meyer Baltimore...

...Evelyn P. Jennings The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean . Daniel B. Rood New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . xiii + 288 pp., $82.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). Copyright © 2021 by Labor and Working-Class...

...Jason Resnikoff j.z.resnikoff@rug.nl The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation Carl Benedikt Frey . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2019 . xiv + 465 pp.; $29.95 (hardcover), $19.95 (paper). Copyright © 2023 by Labor and Working-Class...

...Elizabeth G. Currans Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America Glenn Evelyn Nakano Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2010 262 pp., $29.95 (cloth) Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care Boris Eileen and Parreñas Rhacel Salazar...

...Bridget Burke The career of Rhoda Hils, a teletypist who crossed picket lines, appealed for union membership, and wrote for Editor and Publisher , demonstrates the ways in which conflicts based on gender, technology, and union principles played out in the International Typographical Union (ITU...

... in the last quarter of the twentieth century was an example of the uses and power of the automation discourse, an ideological commitment that obscured the intensification of human labor behind utopian rhetoric and technological enthusiasm. Employers regendered the keyboard to get more work out...

.... And in this industry as in others, women were fundamental to oil industry technological development and labor conflicts. Desk and Derrick's was a haven for working women, providing community, training, and leadership opportunities in an industry deeply hostile to female employees. The club provided numerous outreach...

... private and US military vessels in the Pacific. By 1905, changes in the industry, ship technologies, and naval manpower eroded the navy's older reliance on commercial vessels and seamen. Yet an imperial politics of flexible capacity left a mark on maritime labor reform and its crusade to exclude Chinese...

... to the proliferation of desktop computers in office work, the NSA had reinvented itself as an association of office managers and technology specialists, arguing that the same machines that had deskilled, outsourced, and eliminated many women office workers' jobs would liberate secretaries from the drudgery assigned...

..., in the guise of workers, bred suspicion and undermined solidarity among workers. Labor espionage quickly spread across American industry, while fare collection technologies gradually replaced spotters. Historians have treated labor espionage as a straightforward example of employers' drive for workplace...

...Leon Fink; Julie Greene; John Donoghue Over the course of the mid-seventeenth-century English Revolution, the English state made forced military labor an essential technology of empire building through a political process forged in conflict. The political stakes here were high, as resistance...

... within the base constituency, the other focused on transactions among the leaders of various interest groups and politicians to move policy. Practitioners and academics reflect on how the convergence of neoliberal and libertarian ideology with digital technology is changing not just who owns the means...

.... Noble, who died suddenly this past December from virulent pneumonia, was both a formidable scholar of technology and an irrepressible critic of academic practices. In this latter role, he was widely celebrated — and bemoaned. He had once been selected by a faculty committee for a prestigious chair...