Workers picketing in Spring Hill, Tennessee, on October 30, 2023. (Kevin Wurm / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Ever since Robert Brenner published his essay “The Economics of Global Turbulence” in 1998, there has been a wide-ranging debate about his understanding of the period since the 1970s as a “long downturn.” Seth Ackerman and Aaron Benanav have recently been extending this debate in Jacobin .
Some of the claims that Benanav puts forward in his reply to Ackerman, largely based on his book Automation and the Future of Work , are worth engaging with critically in their own right.
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