Automation deserves it's own bibliography. And depending how one defines the word (does it include autonomous technology?) it could be pretty extensive. Here's a few well known texts on the automation of work:
Nicholas Carr, _The Glass Cage_
Martin Ford, _Rise of the Robots_
Barbara Garson, _How Computers Are Transforming The Office of the Future Into the Factory of the Past_
David Noble, _Progress Without People_ (especially chapter 4: 'Automation Madness')
Matthew Crawford, _Shop Class as Soulcraft_ (especially his sections on the degradation of blue collar and white collar work)
Frederick Winslow Taylor, _The Principles of Scientific Management_ (not really a book about automation per se. But it provides an important framework for understanding the belief systems that drive automation)
Obviously there are many many more. But for an initial foray into the subject matter would this be a good place to start? What other texts would people put on this list? It sort of depends what sort of automation one is interested in exploring. Are you interested in the automation of work? Or are you interested in the literary representation of robots? Or are you interested in Langdon Winner's worries about autonomous technology and technology out of control? (a form of automation I suppose) Each of these flavors of automation would impel one to write up a bibliography with a different emphasis.
Luke