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Repoliticising the future of work: automation and the end of techno-optimism

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  • Solange Vivienne Manche
  • Juan Sebastian Carbonell

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This review article of Aaron Benanav’s Automation and the Future of Work (2020) and Jason Smith’s Smart Machines and Service Work (2020) reads both works as an effort to repoliticise the question of unemployment, which has too often been ascribed to technological innovation, especially by proponents of automation theory. It places their works within current debates surrounding the question of automation and its political reverberations across the political spectrum. In the end, we show that the shortcomings of automation discourse reside in their economic analyses of the future of work and employment and that automation theorists encourage a depoliticisation of the question of employment through technocracy, while Benanav and Smith open the way for thinking about the future of work as a collective and social endeavour.

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  • Solange Vivienne Manche & Juan Sebastian Carbonell, 2022. "Repoliticising the future of work: automation and the end of techno-optimism," Journal of Cultural Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(2), pages 270-276, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jculte:v:15:y:2022:i:2:p:270-276
    DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2028651
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