Cutting edge : technology, information capitalism and social revolution /
Cutting edge : technology, information capitalism and social revolution /
edited by Jim Davis, Thomas A. Hirschl and Michael Stack.
- vii, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Integrated Circuits, Circuits of Capital, and Revolutionary Change -- Theories and Trajectories -- Robots and Capitalism -- Why Machines Cannot Create Value; or, Marx's Theory of Machines -- Capitalism in the Computer Age and Afterword -- High-Tech Hype: Promises and Realities of Technology in the Twenty-First Century -- Value Creation in the Late Twentieth Century: The Rise of the Knowledge Worker -- The Information Commodity: A Preliminary View -- The Digital Advantage -- The Biotechnology Revolution: Self-Replicating Factories and the Ownership of Life Forms -- Structural Unemployment and the Qualitative Transformation of Capitalism -- Conflicts and Transformations -- How Will North America Work in the Twenty-First Century? -- Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism -- A Note on Automation and Alienation -- New Technologies, Neoliberalism and Social Polarization in Mexico's Agriculture -- The New Technological Imperative in Africa: Class Struggle on the Edge of Third-Wave Revolution -- Heresies and Prophecies: The Social and Political Fallout of the Technological Revolution -- The Birth of a Modern Proletariat -- Contributors. 1. Pt. I. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Pt. II. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
1859848303 9781859848302 1859841856 9781859841853
Computers and civilization
Information technology.
QA76.9.C66 / C88 1997
304.4833
Includes bibliographical references.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Integrated Circuits, Circuits of Capital, and Revolutionary Change -- Theories and Trajectories -- Robots and Capitalism -- Why Machines Cannot Create Value; or, Marx's Theory of Machines -- Capitalism in the Computer Age and Afterword -- High-Tech Hype: Promises and Realities of Technology in the Twenty-First Century -- Value Creation in the Late Twentieth Century: The Rise of the Knowledge Worker -- The Information Commodity: A Preliminary View -- The Digital Advantage -- The Biotechnology Revolution: Self-Replicating Factories and the Ownership of Life Forms -- Structural Unemployment and the Qualitative Transformation of Capitalism -- Conflicts and Transformations -- How Will North America Work in the Twenty-First Century? -- Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism -- A Note on Automation and Alienation -- New Technologies, Neoliberalism and Social Polarization in Mexico's Agriculture -- The New Technological Imperative in Africa: Class Struggle on the Edge of Third-Wave Revolution -- Heresies and Prophecies: The Social and Political Fallout of the Technological Revolution -- The Birth of a Modern Proletariat -- Contributors. 1. Pt. I. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Pt. II. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
1859848303 9781859848302 1859841856 9781859841853
Computers and civilization
Information technology.
QA76.9.C66 / C88 1997
304.4833