📚 Automation

Work done without hands watching: machinery, feedback, and the labor question automation keeps putting on the table.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject automation in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	IBM PC Apprentice	Inc. Wordware Pub.	1984	20
	Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics	Juan Andrade Cetto	2008	20
	Control Systems Engineering	Norman S. Nise	1992	14
	Manufacturing processes for engineering materials	Serope Kalpakjian	1984	12
	Principles of external auditing	Brenda Porter	1996	11
	Automation	Walter Buckingham	1961	10
	Rise of the Robots	Martin Ford	1708	9
	Exploring Space Robots	Deborah Kops	2011	9
	Introduction to Industrial Automation	George Nikolakopoulos	2018	9
	Rise of the machines	Thomas Rid	2016	8
	Robotics Engineering	Ed Sobey	2017	8
	Life 3.0	Max Tegmark	2017	8
	Futureproof	Kevin Roose	2021	8
	New Utopians	Robert Boguslaw	1965	7
	Computer-controlled systems	Karl J. Åström	1984	7
	Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing	Mikell P. Groover	1987	7
	DARE-I evaluation	Denice C. Walker	1989	7
	Human Compatible	Stuart J. Russell	2019	7
	World Without Work	Daniel Susskind	2020	7
	Labour and Automation	International Labour Office	1964	6
	Annual review of information science and technology.	Carlos A. Cuadra	1966	6
	Library software for microcomputers	Hilary Gates	1983	6
	In the Age of the Smart Machine	Shoshana Zuboff	1988	6
	Flexible automation in developing countries	Ludovico Alcorta	1998	6
	Technology in the Law Office	Thomas F. Goldman	2007	6
	E-publishing trends & metrics	Unknown author	2007	6
	The Glass Cage	Nicholas G. Carr	2014	6
	Additive Manufacturing Technologies	Ian Gibson	2014	6
	Computers in the Medical Office	Cynthia Newby	1994	5
	Complete office handbook	Susan Jaderstrom	1996	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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