Labour Power: Virtual and Actual in Digital Production

by Roberto Ciccarelli

Book Overview

This book offers a critical account of Karl Marx's dazzling theory of labour power which is also one of the most influential concepts in the history of contemporary philosophy. Labour power is the dark side of the digital revolution. Working men and women are invisible and treated like human service, flesh and blood automatons or organic extensions of a machine that produces data on its own. Automation is viewed as something magic made possible by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030708640
• ISBN13: 9783030708641
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"