Marx and the Robots

Florian Butollo is a Research Fellow for Globalisation, Work, and Production at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Berlin. Sabine Nuss is managing director of the Karl Dietz Verlag. As a political scientist, she has published books on Karl Marx's analysis of capitalism, economic crises in capitalism, digitalisation and automation.

Introduction - Florian Butollo and Sabine Nuss

1. Automation: Is It Really Different This Time? - Judy Wajcman

Part I: Productive Force between Revolution and Continuity

2. ‘Voracious Appetite for Surplus Labour’ - Elena Louisa Lange

3. Industrial Revolution and Mechnisation in Marx - Dorothea Schmidt

4. A Long History of the ‘Factory Without People’ - Karsten Uhl

5. The Journey of the ‘Automation and Qualification’ Project - Frigga Haug

6. ‘Forward! And Let’s Remember’ - Christian Meyer

Part II: Robots in the Factory – Vision and Reality

7. High Tech, Low Growth: Robots and the Future of Work - Kim Moody

8. Productive Power in Concrete Terms - Sabine Pfeiffer

9. Drones, Robots, Synthetic Foods - Franza Drechsel and Kristina Dietz

Part III: Digital Work and Networked Production

10. Networked Technology and Production Networks - Florian Butollo

11. Computerisation: Software and the Democratisation of Work as Productive Power - Nadine Müller

12. Designing Work for Agility and Affect’s Measure - Phoebe V. Moore

Park IV: Platform Capitalism under Scrutiny

13. Old Power in Digital Garb? - Christine Gerber

14. The Machine System of the Twenty-first Century? - Felix Gnisa

15. Digital Labour and Prosumption under Capitalism - Sebastian Sevignani

16. Artificial Intelligence as the Latest Machine of Digital Capitalism - For Now - Timo Daum

17. Forces and Relations of Control - Georg Jochum and Simon Schaupp

Notes on Contributors

Notes

Index