Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right about Why You Hate Your Job

An exhilarating challenge to the way we think about work, technology, progress, and what we want from...
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Author: Gavin Mueller
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Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right about Why You Hate Your Job by Mueller, Gavin

Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right about Why You Hate Your Job

CHF 27.20

Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right about Why You Hate Your Job

CHF 27.20
Author: Gavin Mueller
Format: Paperback
Language: English
An exhilarating challenge to the way we think about work, technology, progress, and what we want from the future

In the 19th century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new tecnologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years 'the Luddites' roamed the English countryside, practicing drills and maneuvers that they would later deploy on unassuming 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 of the antagonistic relationship between workers - all workers, including us today - and the so-called progressive gains secured by new technologies. The luddites weren't primitive or even anachronistic - they are still a force, however unconsciously, in the workplaces of the 21st century world.

Breaking Things at Work is an innovative rethinking of labor 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 high, 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.

Author: Gavin Mueller
Publisher: Verso
Published: 02/09/2021
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781786636775

About the Author
Gavin Mueller teaches New Media and Digital Cultural at University of Amsterdam, and is an editor at Jacobin and Viewpoint Magazine.

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