The Automation Myth

The Automation Myth

“Our workplaces already treat us like the robots they threaten to replace us with.” | Flickr W
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F a c t o r y Most important, computerization has reduced neither the workweek, the promise of all techno-utopias since the 1950s, nor the burden of physical work. We now work more than ever. —Silvia Federici, “Reenchanting the World: Technology, the Body, and the Construction of the Commons” In 1963, the Black working-class revolutionist James Boggs wrote of a coming cataclysm in American industrial production. As an autoworker at Chrysler in Detroit, Boggs had an intimate knowledge of the […]

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