Workers Reconstituting the Factory

This comment on Moritz Altenried's The Digital Factory discusses how the book offers four interrelated theoretical contributions to the study of labour in the digital economy – redefining the factory, specifying digital Taylorism, materializing its infrastructure, and mapping class relations –...

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Published inInternational review of social history Vol. 69; no. 2; pp. 292 - 298
Main Author Kenny, Bridget
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.08.2024
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Summary:This comment on Moritz Altenried's The Digital Factory discusses how the book offers four interrelated theoretical contributions to the study of labour in the digital economy – redefining the factory, specifying digital Taylorism, materializing its infrastructure, and mapping class relations – through four sites of investigation. The piece discusses the implications of the resulting multiplication of labour and labour relations for reconfigured class relations and resistance and argues that the differentiated social relations across spatial and material contexts ask for a theorization of the conjunctural nature of these relations.
ISSN:0020-8590
1469-512X
DOI:10.1017/S0020859024000348