Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are ...

Cover: 9781786636775 | Breaking Things at Work | Gavin Mueller | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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In the nineteenth century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years the Luddites roamed the English countryside, practicing drills and manoeuvres that they would later deploy on unsuspecting machines. The movement has been derided by scholars as a backwards-looking and ultimately ineffectual effort to stem the march of history; for Gavin Mueller, the movement gets at the heart of the antagonistic relationship between all workers, including us today, and the so-called progressive gains secured by new technologies. The Luddites weren't primitive and they are still a force, however unconsciously, in the workplaces of the twenty-first century world.

Breaking Things at Work is an innovative rethinking of labour and machines, leaping from textile mills to algorithms, from existentially threatened knife cutters of rural Germany to surveillance-evading truckers driving across the continental United States. Mueller argues that the future stability and empowerment of working-class movements will depend on subverting these technologies and preventing their spread wherever possible. The task is intimidating, but the seeds of this resistance are already present in the neo-Luddite efforts of hackers, pirates, and dark web users who are challenging surveillance and control, often through older systems of communication technology.

Über den Autor

Gavin Mueller is the author of Media Piracy in the Cultural Economy: Intellectual Property and Labor under Neoliberal Restructuring. He is a Contributing Editor at Jacobin, and a member of the Viewpoint Magazine editorial collective.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Fachbereich:	Populäre Darstellungen
Genre:	Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781786636775
ISBN-10:	1786636778
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Mueller, Gavin
Hersteller:	Verso
Maße:	207 x 142 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Gavin Mueller
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.02.2021
Gewicht:	0,185 kg

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