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Originally Posted by barryem
By the way a really good novel about this very topic is Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons". It's not about retraining factory workers so much as it's about the changes in society brought as the auto industry came into being. It was also the second ever Pulitzer Prize winning novel, and for good reason.
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Completely off topic, but I will second the Magnificent Ambersons recommendation.
Standardebooks has a nicely formatted copy for
free. It's the one I read.