Marx and the Robots

Introduction - Florian Butollo and Sabine Nuss 1. Automation: Is It Really Different This Time? - Judy Wajcman (Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at London School of Economics, UK) Part I: Productive Force between Revolution and Continuity 2. 'Voracious Appetite for Surplus Labour': Understanding the digital revolution through Marx - Elena Louisa Lange (Assistant Professor, Japanese Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland) 3. Industrial Revolution and Mechnisation in Marx: A fact check - Dorothea Schmidt (Professor of Economics and Social History, Harriet Taylor Mill-Institut, Germany) 4. A Long History of the 'Factory Without People': Visions of automation and technological change in the twentieth century - Karsten Uhl (Researcher, Institute of History, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) 5. The Journey of the 'Automation and Qualification' Project - Frigga Haug (German socialist-feminist sociologist and philosopher) 6. 'Forward! And Let's Remember': A review of materialist technology debates of the past - Christian Meyer (Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, UK) Part II: Robots in the Factory - Vision and Reality 7. High Tech, Low Growth: Robots and the Future of Work - Kim Moody (Visiting scholar at the University of Westminster, London, UK) 8. Productive Force in Concrete Terms: Lightweight robots and their difficult beginnings - Sabine Pfeiffer (Professor of Sociology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany) 9. Drones, Robots, Synthetic Foods: Digitalisation in agriculture - Franza Drechsel (Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation) and Kristina Dietz (Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany) Part III: Digital Work and Networked Production 10. Networked Technology and Production Networks: Digitalisation and the reorganisation of global value chains - Florian Butollo 11. Computerisation: Software and the democratisation of work as productive power - Nadine Muller (Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University, UK) 12. Designing work for agility and affect's measure - Phoebe Moore (Associate Professor of the Futures of Work, University of Leicester, UK) Park IV: Platform Capitalism under Scrutiny 13. Old Power in Digital Garb?: The labour process on crowdworking platforms - Christine Gerber (Research Fellow, Berlin Social Science Centre, Germany) 14. The Machine System of the Twenty-First Century?: On the subsumption of communication by digital platform technologies - Felix Gnisa (Department of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany) 15. Digital Labour and Prosumption under Capitalism - Sebastian Sevignani (Department of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany) 16. Artificial Intelligence as the Latest Machine of Digital Capitalism For Now - Timo Daum (Research Fellow, Berlin Social Science Centre, Germany) 17. Forces and Relations of Control: on the possibility of sustainable and democratic planning in the digital ageIntroduction - Florian Butollo and Sabine Nuss 1. Automation: Is It Really Different This Time? - Judy Wajcman (Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at London School of Economics, UK) Part I: Productive Force between Revolution and Continuity 2. 'Voracious Appetite for Surplus Labour': Understanding the digital revolution through Marx - Elena Louisa Lange (Assistant Professor, Japanese Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland) 3. Industrial Revolution and Mechnisation in Marx: A fact check - Dorothea Schmidt (Professor of Economics and Social History, Harriet Taylor Mill-Institut, Germany) 4. A Long History of the 'Factory Without People': Visions of automation and technological change in the twentieth century - Karsten Uhl (Researcher, Institute of History, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) 5. The Journey of the 'Automation and Qualification' Project - Frigga Haug (German socialist-feminist sociologist and philosopher) 6. 'Forward! And Let's Remember': A r