Marx and the Robots : Networked Production, AI and Human Labour

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction - Sabine Nuss and Florian Butollo -- 1. Automation: Is It Really Different This Time? - Judy Wajcman -- I: Productive Power Between Revolution and Continuity -- 2. 'Voracious Appetite for Surplus Labour' - Elena Louisa Lange -- 3. Industrial Revolution and Mechanisation 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 -- 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 -- 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 Muller -- 12. Designing Work for Agility and Affect's Measure - Phoebe V. Moore -- IV: Platform Capitalism under Scrutiny -- 13. Old Power in Digital Garb? - Christine Gerber -- 14. The Machine System of the 21st 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.