Cutting Edge
Technology, Information, Capitalism and Social Revolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11084200 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rubin Patterson (corresponding author), Jim Davis (0000-0002-3364-027X), T A Hirschl (0000-0003-2361-8826), Thomas Hirschl, Michael Stack (0000-0001-5569-1054) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 185 |
| Publication date | 1999-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2654866 |
| OpenAlex | W1978819743 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
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. Individual essays look at topics including the cyclical nature of a technologically-driven economy, the privatization of knowledge which new information industries demand, and the strategies which trade unionists and governments might deploy to potect jobs and living standards. A robot can build a car, but a robot cannot buy a car. The explosion in the development of computer- and robotic-based manufacturing is seeing the rapid expansion of labourless production systems. Such systems create enormous instability, both for the overall economy where money previously paid in wages is now invested in labour-saving technology and, therefore, cannot be spent on goods, and for workers whose jobs are being de-skilled or are simply disappearing. Contributors to the book include: Abdul Akalimat, Michael Brand, George Caffentzis, Guglielmo Carchedi, Jim Davis, Thomas A. Hirschl, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Gerardo Otero, Nelson Perry, Ramin Ramtin, Dan Schiller, Steffanie Scott, Michael Stack and Nick Witheford
Business · Capitalism · Economics · Economy · Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution · Information revolution · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social revolution · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Economic Development and Digital Transformation · Law
Value form and class struggle
EBlack studies
Literacies and libraries
Dark Continents
Post-Fordism and the end of work
Perfect present, perfect gift
Crisis of Command
Chronicles of Labour
Progress” or progress? Defining a socialist technology
Class and capital in peer production
Frameworks for understanding the politics of social movements
Free Labor
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2015 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |