Cutting Edge - Technology, Information, Capitalism and Social Revolution

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Hirschl is Director of the Population and Development Program at Cornell University. Guglielmo Carchedi is Senior Researcher in the Department of Economics and Econometrics at the University of Amsterdam. His previous books include Frontiers of Political Economy and Marx and Non-Equilibrium Economics . Klappentext The rapid expansion of laborless production systems creates enormous instability. Money previously paid in wages is spent on technology. Workers lose jobs to robotic intelligence and, therefore, have no money to buy the goods produced by the technology. CUTTING EDGE provides an up-to-the-minute analysis of the complex relations between technology and work and how jobs and living standards can be protected. Zusammenfassung Bringing together contributions from workers employed in the new electronics and information industries with work from theorists and economics! politics and science! this title provides an up-to-date analysis of the complex relations between technology and work.

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• Authors: Jim Davis, Jim Hirschl Davis, Jim Stack Davis, Thomas Hirschl, Michael Stack
• Assisted by: Jim Davis (Editor), Thomas Hirschl (Editor), Thomas A. Hirschl (Editor), Michael Stack (Editor), Stack Michael (Editor)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.01.1998
• EAN: 9781859841853
• ISBN: 978-1-85984-185-3
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Engineering, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Manufacturing, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Sociology: work & labour, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Sociology: work and labour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / CAD-CAM, Computer aided manufacture (CAM)