Description: Kraft offers an illuminating case study in the impact of technology on industry and society--and a provocative chapter in the cultural history of America.
Brief description: James P. Kraft is a professor of US business, labor, and the American West at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He is the author of Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950 and Vegas at Odds: Labor Conflict in a Leisure Economy, 1960-1985, and Havoc and Reform: Workplace Disasters in Modern America.
Review Quotes: Historians might not have answers to the questions of technology displacing and deskilling workers, but they can lay out the facts and be sympathetic to the victims. This Kraft has done. He writes clearly and without bias, [and] has an understanding of his subjects that comes from his own background as a musician.
--André Millard, American Historical Review