Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation by Smith, Jason E.

Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789143188)

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Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation by Smith, Jason E.

Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation

$20.00
Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation by Smith, Jason E.

Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation

$20.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 labor-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.

Author: Jason E. Smith
ISBN-10: 1789143187
ISBN-13: 9781789143188
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Language: English
Published: 12/23/2020
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.90d
By Jason E. Smith
By Jason E. Smith
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Jason E. Smith lives in Los Angeles. He has written extensively on contemporary politics and political economy in journals including Artforum, Brooklyn Rail, Commune, Critical Inquiry, and Radical Philosophy.

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