Marx and the Robots Networked Production, AI and Human Labour
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Biographical note
Florian Butollo is a Research Fellow for Globalisation, Work, and Production at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Berlin. Sabine Nuss is managing director of the Karl Dietz Verlag. As a political scientist, she has published books on Karl Marx's analysis of capitalism, economic crises in capitalism, digitalisation and automation.<p>'Cuts through the hype about automation and artificial intelligence to explain how technologies actually make it from the showroom to the factory floor'</p>
- Aaron Benanav, author of 'Automation and the Future of Work',
<p>'Excellent ... summarises the entire breadth of the debate about Marx and digitisation'</p>
- Soziologie Magazin,
<p>'Stands out, [...] bringing a remarkably wide range of perspectives to debates often dominated by technological determinism and fetishisation. A compelling analysis of contemporary trends that combines theoretical sophistication with an unusual breadth of empirical detail'</p>
- Virginia Doellgast, Professor of Comparative Employment Relations, ILR School, Cornell University,
<p>'In this engaging and valuable collection, Butollo and Nuss show how Marx's lens on the industrial revolution can help us examine and interpret the digital transformation'</p>
- John Zysman, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley and Co-Founder, Co-director - Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE),
<p>'Brilliant. From factory to platform, from value to variety, the authors analyse the past, present and futures of work. Highly recommended for radical educators'</p>
- Kendra Briken, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow,
<p>'An essential volume on digitalisation and platforms, moving beyond technology fetishism and technological determinism to highlight the contradictory nature of technical change within capitalism'</p>
- Matt Vidal, Reader in Sociology and Political Economy, Loughborough University, London,