TY - BOOK AU - Davis,Jim AU - Hirschl,Thomas A. AU - Stack,Michael TI - Cutting edge: technology, information capitalism and social revolution SN - 1859848303 AV - QA76.9.C66 C88 1997 U1 - 304.4833 PY - 1997///] CY - London, New York PB - Verso KW - Computers and civilization KW - Information technology N1 - 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 ER -