Cutting Edge

Technology, Information Capitalism and Social Revolution

By: Jim Davis (Editor), Thomas Hirschl (Editor), Michael Stack (Editor)

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Paperback | 17 January 1998 | Edition Number 1

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A robot can build a car. But a robot cannot buy a car ... The explosion in the development of computer- and robot-based manufacturing is seeing the rapid expansion of laborless production systems. Such systems create enormous instability, both for the overall world economy where money previously paid in wages is now invested in labor-saving technology and therefore cannot be spent on goods, and for workers whose jobs are being de-skilled or are simply disappearing. Bringing together contributions from workers employed in the new electronics and information industries with theorists in economics, politics and science, Cutting Edge provides an up-to-the-minute 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, the convergence of different economic sectors under the impact of digitalization, and the strategies which trade unionists and governments might deploy to protect jobs and living standards.

Technology has the potential to end material scarcity and lay the foundations for higher forms of human fulfillment. But under existing power structures, it is more likely to exacerbate the poverty and misery under which most people live. Cutting Edge weighs that balance and, in helping us to understand how technology interacts with the production of goods and services, tips it in the direction of a more equal and creative world.

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Non-Fiction Economics Science Science in General Impact of Science & Technology on Society Computing & I.T.Information Technology General Issue Ethical & Social Aspects of IT Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Work & Labour Engineering & Technology

Mechanical Engineering & Materials Production & Industrial Engineering Computer Aided Manufacture CAM Industry & Industrial Studies

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Integrated Circuits, Circuits of Capital, and Revolutionary Change	p. 1
Theories and Trajectories	p. 11
Robots and Capitalism	p. 13
Why Machines Cannot Create Value; or, Marx's Theory of Machines	p. 29
Capitalism in the Computer Age and Afterword	p. 57
High-Tech Hype: Promises and Realities of Technology in the Twenty-First Century	p. 73
Value Creation in the Late Twentieth Century: The Rise of the Knowledge Worker	p. 87
The Information Commodity: A Preliminary View	p. 103
The Digital Advantage	p. 121
The Biotechnology Revolution: Self-Replicating Factories and the Ownership of Life Forms	p. 145
Structural Unemployment and the Qualitative Transformation of Capitalism	p. 157
Conflicts and Transformations	p. 175
How Will North America Work in the Twenty-First Century?	p. 177
Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism	p. 195
A Note on Automation and Alienation	p. 243
New Technologies, Neoliberalism and Social Polarization in Mexico's Agriculture	p. 253
The New Technological Imperative in Africa: Class Struggle on the Edge of Third-Wave Revolution	p. 271
Heresies and Prophecies: The Social and Political Fallout of the Technological Revolution	p. 287
The Birth of a Modern Proletariat	p. 297
Contributors	p. 303
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