Machines Against Measures - How to Escape the Constant Measuring of Work Under Capitalism

Are we doomed because of the new digital technologies used in workspaces? Can we avoid measuring in our work? Or are we trapped in a metrification dystopia? Can we create workspaces that can produce what we prefer about human effort, and if yes, what technologies could we use? Here, monetary-theorist Irene Sotiropoulou explores and critiques the production means that were created for capitalist profit-making, showing how we can subvert these and use them for our own non-capitalist purposes. shows that in times of capitalist restructuring and multiple social reproduction crises, there open up new possibilities to experiment with quantity, measuring, machines and digital technologies, creating new ways of production and transaction. Within these, are ways of sharing that defy many principles of capitalist production. Using everyday examples from grassroots organisations, this offers new insights into how to be inventive with what we have at hand, revealing a more utopian vision of technology and work, based on re-defining how we measure what we do.>

Product details

• Authors: Irene Sotiropoulou
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9780755639588
• ISBN: 978-0-7556-3958-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Autonomy and Automation
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Political Economy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Monetary Economics, Economics of industrial organisation, Marxism & Communism, Economics of industrial organization