Weeks, Robert P. — Machines and the Man : A Sourcebook on Automation

New York, NY, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1961. Softcover. Brown wraps with duochrome illustration, blue and white text. 338 pp. Chiefly text with some tables. Contents: Age of the thinking robot, and what it will mean to us / Robert Bendiner -- "Automation": news behind the noise / Herbert Solow -- Stop coining words! / J.J. Brown -- "Automation" fills a semantic void / James R. Bright -- The logic of automation / Peter Drucker -- The four major principles / Walter S. Buckingham, Jr. -- Feedback / Arnold Tustin -- The evolutionary nature of mechanization / James R. Bright -- The first and the second industrial revolution / Norbert Weiner -- The coming victory over paper / Edmund L. Van Dusen -- Management's view / Don G. Mitchell -- Labor's view / James Carey -- Labor's view / Joseph A. Bierne -- Management's view / Clifton W. Phalen -- Life in the automatic factory / Charles R. Walker -- Teaching machines / B.F. Skinner -- King Lud speaks / Frank Peel -- The rising of the Luddites / Frank Peel -- On machinery considered in relation to the prosperity of the working classes / Francois Arago -- Abundance through economic freedom / Marshall G. Munce -- Calling all jobs / National Association of Manufacturers -- In defence of machines / George Boas -- "Nobody wants to sound defeatist-publicly" / Gabriel Kolko -- Employment effects of automation in manufacturing / Charles C. Killingsworth -- Meat heads, sweet dough and automatic living / Edward R. Murrow, editor -- Technological "mis-employment" / Geoffrey Ashe -- "Magic carpet" economics are not good enough / Walter Reuther -- An economist attempts to sum up / Edwin G. Nourse -- Happy idle hours become a rat race / Sloan Wilson -- Work as a public issue / Harvey Swados -- Leisure and human values in industrial civilization / Reuel Denney and David Reisman -- The machine stops / E.M. Forster -- Two poems / D.H. Lawrence -- pity this busy monster / e e cummings -- Some psychological and economic assumptions underlying automation / Henry Winthrop. Good- (dampstaining on cover, edge of some pages, material still good for reference) .