Capitalism, Technology, Labor

Each new wave of technological innovation produces extremes of utopianism and despair. The collection of essays from the Social Register, for decades one of the pre-eminent sources of intellectual and strategic enquiry for the international left, skewers both of these delusions. Instead, what Marx termed the "constant revolutionising of production" and "disturbance of all social conditions" is presented as both a response to and generator of capitalist crises, against a backdrop of distinct social relations and forms of class struggle. Through a series of trenchant critiques spanning more than five decades, Capitalism, Technology, Labor shows how technological change has led to a recomposition of the global working class and international production chains. Only if we are attentive to this evolving terrain of class struggle can we hope to devise a political strategy that can win meaningful victories.