American Decades
"The Manpower Revolution"
Journal article
By: George G. Kirstein
Date: February 10, 1964
Source: Kirstein, George G. "The Manpower Revolution." The Nation 198, no. 7, February 10, 1964, 140–142.
About the Author: George G. Kirstein (1909–1986) was a well known writer on various facets of business and the economy. He specialized in labor issues and in 1968 published his best known book, The Rich; Are They Different?, that restates novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald's immortal question about the relationship of people of great wealth to the rest of society. He was also publisher and editor of The Nation, a venerable left-leaning periodical established in 1865 that covers current affairs.
Introduction
Although turn-of-the-century science fiction had speculated on the prospect of machines replacing human beings in virtually all facets of daily life, the fantasy appeared to...
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