Women had a key role in the production of hardware that powered technological developments over the past 200 years, from the core rope memory woven for the Apollo missions to the microchips that power every single appliance. Their entrance to the workforce always ran concurrently to attempts to automate their labor. Their skills in find handwork and the perceived demurity of their characters were sought after for technology production. The Manual for Superfluous Motions tracks the motions on the production line that interrupted, refused, exceeded, or otherwise interfered with the seamless production necessary for the production of technologies.

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