Field Notes: Smart Machines and Service Work : Automation in an Age of Stagnation (Hardcover)

Smart Machines and Service Work : Automation in an Age of Stagnation

In recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life, while tech companies’ stock prices have thrust them to the forefront of the business world. In this rapid, global development, the promise of a new machine age has been accompanied by worries about accelerated joblessness thanks to new forms of automation. Jason E. Smith looks behind the techno-hype to lay out the realities of a period of economic slowdown and expanding debt: low growth rates and an increase of labor-intensive jobs at the bottom of the service sector. He shows how increasing inequality and poor working conditions have led to new forms of workers’ struggles. Ours is less an age of automation, Smith contends, than one in which stagnation is intertwined with class conflict.

Book format	Hardcover
Fiction/nonfiction	Non-Fiction
Genre	History
Publication date	December, 2020
Pages	192
Reading level	General
Series title	Field Notes
Edition	New edition
Publisher	Reaktion Books
Original languages	English
Language	English
Edu focus	Social Science
Binding type	Case Binding
Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h)	8.25 x 5.25 x 0.80 Inches
Assembled product weight	0.75 lb
Bisac subject heading	Social Science