Identification and Evaluation of Sources
The scope of this investigation covers the effects of technological development in American employment from the 1960s-1990s. It specifically focuses on the effects of computerization as computers began to replace human laborers. Source Evaluation #1: Primary Source One of my primary sources is the book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962, accessed online. This book is a compilation of quotes spoken by President John F. Kennedy in the year 1962, mandated by the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register to be freely distributed to each member of Congress. In the foreword, Kennedy describes the purpose of collecting all these documents: to tell “the story …show more content…
America’s Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981 by Amy Bix. This book was published in 2000, which makes it a secondary source with an outside perspective, as the author wrote the book almost twenty years after the events of the book. Bix published the book as an academic publication analyzing the effects of technological unemployment in America. The book is written in a narrative fashion, with a clear purpose to both inform and entertain. It was selected by Choice Magazine as one of the “Outstanding Academic Titles” of the year 2000. As a secondary source, Bix has the advantage of hindsight to examine events in the context of …show more content…
Inventing Ourselves out of Jobs? was written in 2000, placing it at a further chronological distance from the events than the book The Impact of Technological Change on Employment and Economic Growth by Richard Cyert and David Mowery. This greater time difference between the events described in the book and the date of publication gave Bix more reliability because she could look at more long-term effects of computerization. Additionally, Bix’s book was focused entirely on employment in America, whereas American employment was only a portion of Cyert and Mowery’s focus, as they were also evaluating technology’s effects on European employment. Thus, I was more inclined to rely on Bix’s view of computerization. These two factors made Inventing Ourselves out of Jobs? a more reliable source than The Impact of Technological Change on Employment and Economic
The scope of this investigation covers the effects of technological development in American employment from the 1960s-1990s. It specifically focuses on the effects of computerization as computers began to replace human laborers. Source Evaluation #1: Primary Source One of my primary sources is the book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962, accessed online. This book is a compilation of quotes spoken by President John F. Kennedy in the year 1962, mandated by the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register to be freely distributed to each member of Congress. In the foreword, Kennedy describes the purpose of collecting all these documents: to tell “the story …show more content…
America’s Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981 by Amy Bix. This book was published in 2000, which makes it a secondary source with an outside perspective, as the author wrote the book almost twenty years after the events of the book. Bix published the book as an academic publication analyzing the effects of technological unemployment in America. The book is written in a narrative fashion, with a clear purpose to both inform and entertain. It was selected by Choice Magazine as one of the “Outstanding Academic Titles” of the year 2000. As a secondary source, Bix has the advantage of hindsight to examine events in the context of …show more content…
Inventing Ourselves out of Jobs? was written in 2000, placing it at a further chronological distance from the events than the book The Impact of Technological Change on Employment and Economic Growth by Richard Cyert and David Mowery. This greater time difference between the events described in the book and the date of publication gave Bix more reliability because she could look at more long-term effects of computerization. Additionally, Bix’s book was focused entirely on employment in America, whereas American employment was only a portion of Cyert and Mowery’s focus, as they were also evaluating technology’s effects on European employment. Thus, I was more inclined to rely on Bix’s view of computerization. These two factors made Inventing Ourselves out of Jobs? a more reliable source than The Impact of Technological Change on Employment and Economic