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Cutting edge : technology, information capitalism and social revolution / edited by Jim Davis, Thomas A. Hirschl and Michael Stack.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Verso, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: vii, 304 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1859848303
  • 9781859848302
  • 1859841856
  • 9781859841853
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.4833
LOC classification:
  • QA76.9.C66 C88 1997
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Integrated Circuits, Circuits of Capital, and Revolutionary Change -- Pt. I. Theories and Trajectories -- 2. Robots and Capitalism -- 3. Why Machines Cannot Create Value; or, Marx's Theory of Machines -- 4. Capitalism in the Computer Age and Afterword -- 5. High-Tech Hype: Promises and Realities of Technology in the Twenty-First Century -- 6. Value Creation in the Late Twentieth Century: The Rise of the Knowledge Worker -- 7. The Information Commodity: A Preliminary View -- 8. The Digital Advantage -- 9. The Biotechnology Revolution: Self-Replicating Factories and the Ownership of Life Forms -- 10. Structural Unemployment and the Qualitative Transformation of Capitalism -- Pt. II. Conflicts and Transformations -- 11. How Will North America Work in the Twenty-First Century? -- 12. Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism -- 13. A Note on Automation and Alienation -- 14. New Technologies, Neoliberalism and Social Polarization in Mexico's Agriculture -- 15. The New Technological Imperative in Africa: Class Struggle on the Edge of Third-Wave Revolution -- 16. Heresies and Prophecies: The Social and Political Fallout of the Technological Revolution -- 17. The Birth of a Modern Proletariat -- Contributors.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Integrated Circuits, Circuits of Capital, and Revolutionary Change -- Pt. I. Theories and Trajectories -- 2. Robots and Capitalism -- 3. Why Machines Cannot Create Value; or, Marx's Theory of Machines -- 4. Capitalism in the Computer Age and Afterword -- 5. High-Tech Hype: Promises and Realities of Technology in the Twenty-First Century -- 6. Value Creation in the Late Twentieth Century: The Rise of the Knowledge Worker -- 7. The Information Commodity: A Preliminary View -- 8. The Digital Advantage -- 9. The Biotechnology Revolution: Self-Replicating Factories and the Ownership of Life Forms -- 10. Structural Unemployment and the Qualitative Transformation of Capitalism -- Pt. II. Conflicts and Transformations -- 11. How Will North America Work in the Twenty-First Century? -- 12. Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism -- 13. A Note on Automation and Alienation -- 14. New Technologies, Neoliberalism and Social Polarization in Mexico's Agriculture -- 15. The New Technological Imperative in Africa: Class Struggle on the Edge of Third-Wave Revolution -- 16. Heresies and Prophecies: The Social and Political Fallout of the Technological Revolution -- 17. The Birth of a Modern Proletariat -- Contributors.

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