R.U.R. Rossum’s Universal Robots - Karel Čapek A stage play about an industrialists attempt to maximise productivity by replacing human workers with artificial ones dubbed `Robots`.
Artificial intelligence, unemployment and universal basic income: another panacea of the owner class - humanaesfera How can AI concretely change capitalist society? And how can universal basic income…
The Working Class Should Not Fear Automation; It Should Embrace It Automation technology has been used by capital to eliminate jobs and used as a threat against…
The capitalist use of machinery: Marx versus the objectivists - Raniero Panzieri Italian Marxist Raniero Panzieri on the capitalist use of technology and machines.
Music is stagnating, are neoliberalism and the gig economy to blame? Progress in music is slowing down, a look at how neoliberalism and developments in music production…
Soldering on: report on working in a 3D-printer manufacturing plant in London The first part of the article looks at the current hype around automation and post-industrialism…
Captain Swing was here! A short history of the 1830 Swing riots by Stuart Booth. Farm bosses would receive threatening letters from a fictional “Captain Swing”, and if…
The Luddites: machine-breaking in regency England A historical overview and analysis of the Luddite movement 1811-1816 which swept parts of the UK as workers smashed machines to defend their jobs…
Who were the Luddites? A brief overview of the Luddite movement: militant textile workers in the UK who fought against job losses and deskilling brought about by the…
