Jason Resnikoff is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) where he specializes in labor history and the history of technology. His book, Labor’s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work, explores the ideological origins of automation in the US in the middle of the twentieth century. You can find his work in LaborInternational Labor and Working-Class HistoryTropics of MetaThe Saturday Evening Post, Western Humanities Review,Paris Review Daily, and the Encyclopedia of American Recessions and Depressions. His time working as an organizer for the United Auto Workers grounds his scholarship. His next book, The Slave and the Machine: Coerced Labor and the Origins of Modern Technology (Verso), examines the centrality of forced labor in the development of modern technology from the seventeenth-century to today.

Jason Resnikoff is Universitair Docent Eigentijdse Geschiedenis aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, waar hij zich specialiseert in arbeidsgeschiedenis en de geschiedenis van technologie. Zijn boek, Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work, onderzoekt de ideologische oorsprong van automatisering in de VS in het midden van de twintigste eeuw. U kan zijn werk vinden in Labor, International Labour and Working-Class History, Tropics of Meta, The Saturday Evening Post, Western Humanities Review, Paris Review Daily en de Encyclopedia of American Recessions and Depressions. Zijn tijd als organisator voor de United Auto Workers rechtvaardigt zijn beurs. Zijn volgende boek, The Slave and the Machine: Coerced Labor and the Origins of Modern Technology (Verso), onderzoekt de centrale rol van dwangarbeid in de ontwikkeling van moderne technologie van de zeventiende eeuw tot heden.

 
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