Prologue : technology as progress?
"Economy of a madhouse" : Entering the Depression-era debate over technological unemployment
"Finding jobs faster than invention can take them away" : Government's role in the technological unemployment debate
'No power on earth can stop improved machinery" : labor's concern about displacement
"Machinery don't eat" : displacement as a theme in Depression culture
"The machine has been libeled" : the business community's defense
"Innocence or guilt of science" : scientists and engineers mobilize to justify mechanization
"What will the smug machine age do?" : Envisioning past, present, and future as America moves from Depression to war
"Automation just killed us" : the displacement question in postwar America
Epilogue : revisiting the technological unemployment debate.
