The technology trap : capital, labor, and power in the age of automation - Frey, Carl Benedikt (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2020)
Introduction -- A brief history of preindustrial progress -- Preindustrial prosperity -- Why mechanization failed -- The factory arrives -- The Industrial Revolution and its discontents -- From mass production to mass flourishing -- The return of the machinery question -- The triumph of the middle class -- The descent of the middle class -- Forging ahead, drifting apart -- The politics of polarization -- Artificial intelligence -- The road to riches.
Reprint. Originally published: 2019
Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-452) and index.
Keywords: Technological innovations -- Economic aspects; Technology -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Technology -- Social aspects -- History -- 21st century