#111 Why the Luddites were right (part 2) w/ Gavin Mueller

Gavin Mueller joins PTO for part two of our conversation on his new
book, 'Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites were Right About Why
You Hate Your Job'. We talked about Taylorism and the deskilling of
workers, how automation was used by American military planners
during the Vietnam war in order to maintain control of the
increasingly mutinous US Army, and finally we talked about why - in
spite of how the increasing deployment of deskilling technologies
made working conditions worse and more dangerous - many union
leaders in both the United States and Europe supported the
imposition of these new technologies.