Description: A wide-ranging, myth-busting and balanced materialist account of an overheated discourseA wide-ranging, myth-busting and balanced materialist account of an overheated discourse
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Florian Butollo is a Research Fellow for Globalisation, Work, and Production at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Berlin.
Review Quotes: 'Excellent ... summarises the entire breadth of the debate about Marx and digitisation''Stands out, [...] bringing a remarkably wide range of perspectives to debates often dominated by technological determinism and fetishisation. A compelling analysis of contemporary trends that combines theoretical sophistication with an unusual breadth of empirical detail''In this engaging and valuable collection, Butollo and Nuss show how Marx's lens on the industrial revolution can help us examine and interpret the digital transformation''Brilliant. From factory to platform, from value to variety, the authors analyse the past, present and futures of work. Highly recommended for radical educators''An essential volume on digitalisation and platforms, moving beyond technology fetishism and technological determinism to highlight the contradictory nature of technical change within capitalism''Cuts through the hype about automation and artificial intelligence to explain how technologies actually make it from the showroom to the factory floor'