Smart Machines and Service Work
Automation in an Age of Stagnation
Published on 16. November 2020
1 pages
978-1-78914-317-1 (ISBN)
Description
In recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life, while tech companies' stock prices have thrust them to the forefront of the business world. In this rapid, global development, the promise of a new machine age has been accompanied by worries about accelerated joblessness thanks to new forms of automation. Jason E. Smith looks behind the techno-hype to lay out the realities of a period of economic slowdown and expanding debt: low growth rates and an increase of labour-intensive jobs at the bottom of the service sector. He shows how increasing inequality and poor working conditions have led to new forms of workers' struggles. Ours is less an age of automation, Smith contends, than one in which stagnation is intertwined with class conflict.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
0,81 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78914-317-1 (9781789143171)
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11/2020
Reaktion Books
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Person
Jason E. Smith lives in Los Angeles. He has written extensively on contemporary politics and political economy, in journals including the Brooklyn Rail, Critical Inquiry, Radical Philosophy, SAQ and elsewhere.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Automation 2.0
- 1. A Little History of Automation
- 2. The Robot and the Zombie
- 3. Army of Shadows
- 4. Approaching Zero
- 5. Circulation and Control
- 6. The Servant Economy
- 7. An Absolute Law
- References
- Acknowledgments
