Smart Machines and Service Work – Automation in an Age of Stagnation : Automation in an Age of Stagnation
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Field Notes
ISBN-10
1789143187
ISBN-13
9781789143188
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Imprint
Reaktion Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 16th, 2020
Print length
160 Pages
Weight
340 grams
Dimensions
14.60 x 22.30 x 2.30 cms
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A trenchant exposé of workers’ struggles in our age of ‘smart machines’.
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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