Marx and the Robots - Networked Production, Ai and Human Labour

A wide-ranging, myth-busting and balanced materialist account of an overheated discourse

List of contents

Introduction - 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

About the author

Florian Butollo is a Research Fellow for Globalisation, Work, and Production at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Berlin.
Sabine Nuss is managing director of the Karl Dietz Verlag. As a political scientist, she has published books on Karl Marx's analysis of capitalism, economic crises in capitalism, digitalisation and automation.

Summary

A wide-ranging, myth-busting and balanced materialist account of an overheated discourse

Product details

• Authors: Florian (Weizenbaum Institute for the Net Butollo, Florian Nuss Butollo
• Assisted by: Florian Butollo (Editor), Florian (Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society Butollo (Editor), Butollo Florian (Editor), Sabine Nuss (Editor), Sabine (Karl Dietz Verlag) Nuss (Editor), Nuss Sabine (Editor), Jan-Peter Herrmann (Translation)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780745344379
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4437-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Artificial Intelligence, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, COMPUTERS / Networking / General, Political science & theory, Political Economy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Sociology: work & labour, Political science and theory, Computer networking & communications, Marxism & Communism, Sociology: work and labour, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Computer networking and communications