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Marx and the Robots : Networked Production, AI, and Human Labour by Jan-Peter Herrmann (2022, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPluto Press

ISBN-100745344372

ISBN-139780745344379

eBay Product ID (ePID)18057255533

Product Key Features

Number of Pages336 Pages

Publication NameMarx and the Robots : Networked Production, Ai, and Human Labour

LanguageEnglish

SubjectIntelligence (Ai) & Semantics, History & Theory, Economics / General, Labor

Publication Year2022

TypeTextbook

AuthorJan-Peter Herrmann

Subject AreaComputers, Political Science, Business & Economics

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight16.2 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2021-276214

Dewey Edition23

Reviews'Cuts through the hype about automation and artificial intelligence to explain how technologies actually make it from the showroom to the factory floor'

Dewey Decimal658.5/14

Original LanguageGerman

Table Of ContentIntroduction - Florian Butollo and Sabine Nuss 1. Automation: Is It Really Different This Time? - Judy Wajcman Part I: Productive Force between Revolution and Continuity 2. 'Voracious Appetite for Surplus Labour' - Elena Louisa Lange 3. Industrial Revolution and Mechnisation in Marx - Dorothea Schmidt 4. A Long History of the 'Factory Without People' - Karsten Uhl 5. The Journey of the 'Automation and Qualification' Project - Frigga Haug 6. 'Forward! And Let's Remember' - Christian Meyer Part II: Robots in the Factory - Vision and Reality 7. High Tech, Low Growth: Robots and the Future of Work - Kim Moody 8. Productive Power in Concrete Terms - Sabine Pfeiffer 9. Drones, Robots, Synthetic Foods - Franza Drechsel and Kristina Dietz Part III: Digital Work and Networked Production 10. Networked Technology and Production Networks - Florian Butollo 11. Computerisation: Software and the Democratisation of Work as Productive Power - Nadine Müller 12. Designing Work for Agility and Affect's Measure - Phoebe V. Moore Park IV: Platform Capitalism under Scrutiny 13. Old Power in Digital Garb? - Christine Gerber 14. The Machine System of the Twenty-first Century? - Felix Gnisa 15. Digital Labour and Prosumption under Capitalism - Sebastian Sevignani 16. Artificial Intelligence as the Latest Machine of Digital Capitalism - For Now - Timo Daum 17. Forces and Relations of Control - Georg Jochum and Simon Schaupp Notes on Contributors Notes Index

SynopsisMarxist discourse around automation has recently become waylaid with breathless techno-pessimist dystopias and fanciful imaginations of automated luxury communism. This collection of essays by both established veterans of the field and new voices is a refreshingly sober materialist reflection on recent technological developments within capitalist production. It covers a broad range of digital aspects now proliferating across our work and lives, including chapters on the digitalisation of agriculture, robotics in the factory and the labour process on crowdworking platforms. It looks to how 20th century Marxist predictions of the 'workerless factory' are, or are not, coming true, and how 'Platform Capitalism' should be understood and critiqued. Through rich empirical, theoretical and historical material, this book is necessary reading for those wanting a clear overview of our digital world., Marxist discourse around automation has recently become waylaid with breathless techno-pessimist dystopias and fanciful imaginations of automated luxury communism. This collection of essays by both established veterans of the field and new voices is a refreshingly sober materialist reflection on recent technological developments within capitalist production. It covers a broad range of digital aspects now proliferating across our work and lives, including chapters on the digitalization of agriculture, robotics in the factory and the labor process on crowdworking platforms. It looks to how 20th century Marxist predictions of the 'workerless factory' are, or are not, coming true, and how 'Platform Capitalism' should be understood and critiqued. Through rich empirical, theoretical and historical material, this book is necessary reading for those wanting a clear overview of our digital world.

LC Classification NumberHD4855