Visiting Scholars Program Lecture Series: The Slave and the Machine: Coerced Labor and the Origins of Modern Technology

Jason Resnikoff is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of 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. His time working as an organizer for the United Auto Workers grounds his scholarship. His current research interests include the intersection of racism and technology.