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Machine Age in the Hills
Sinopsis
This illustrated volume was published in 1933.
Excerpts from the book. A machine age twilight
has settled over the coal hills of the South.
There, during the past two decades, a region of
small farmers was made momentarily prosper- ous
by a sudden invasion of industry then the wave
passed, leaving them spoilt for the old way of
life and helpless to face the new. Here, in
miniature, is a cycle which technology seems to
be working out in America at large. We cannot
forecast the effects of technology in all the
interlocking industries of the United States.
But in the coal fields we have an isolated social
research laboratory where we can examine the
already com- pleted cycle from agrarian stability
to industrial col- lapse. In so doing we are
struck by the persistence of the old patterns of
bungling and bloodshed. This, we had thought, is
a scientific age yet we act as though no better
tools than tooth and claw had ever been in-
vented. Inside our laboratories we know how to
apply the scientific spirit but when we take the
results of research into the marketplace we
squabble over them in emotional unrestraint. In
this there is grave danger, since technology is
an impersonal factor, not answering to emotional
treat- ment. Its tendency is to put men out of
work faster than we can succor them, and it does
this quite inde- pendently of human moods. This
phenomenon has long been under observation.
Morose prophets have been predicting for a
decade that machines would eventually create a
surplus of human hands for which society will
never be able to find work. Others supposed that
increased production could keep pace
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