@booklet {1179, title = {"Breakdown"}, howpublished = {Astounding Science Fiction (New York)}, volume = {28.5}, year = {1942}, note = {

U.K. ed. Astounding Science Fiction 28. 5 (January 1942): 2-19. Rpt. in U.K. ed. Astounding Science Fiction 8.1 (December 1951): 2-36; in Journey to Infinity. Ed. Martin Greenberg (New York: Gnome Press, 1951), 110-44; in his People Machines (New York: Ace Books, 1971), 154-87, with an author\’s note on 151-53; and in The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson Volume Seven: With Folded Hands and Searching Mind (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2010), 19-54.\ 

}, month = {January 1942}, pages = {9-26}, abstract = {

Dystopia of union domination. The author says that it is not intended to be anti-labor but \"to contrast the forces of social creation and the facts of social stagnation\" (People Machines, 153).

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006)} }