Rate My Professor Jason Resnikoff

Resnikoff's research centers on the history of labor and technology, history of capitalism, US history, and intellectual history. His book Labor’s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work was published by the University of Illinois Press in the Working-Class in American History Series. Key peer-reviewed articles include “Whence Automation? The History (and Possible Futures) of a Concept,” co-authored with Salem Elzway in Labor: Studies in Working-Class History (2024); “Contesting the Idea of Progress: Labor’s AI Challenge” in the same journal (2024); “The Myth of Black Obsolescence” in International Labor and Working-Class History (2022); and “The Paradox of Automation: QWERTY and The Neuter Keyboard” in Labor (2021), which won the Best Article Prize for the most outstanding article in Labor for 2020/2021. He has contributed to public outlets such as the Washington Post (“AI Won't Kill Our Jobs--But It Will Make Them Worse,” 2023) and Jacobin. Resnikoff has presented at conferences including the Labor and Working-Class History Association, Society for the History of Technology, and Society for US Intellectual History, addressing topics like automation ideologies, labor narratives, and technological impacts on work.