The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation (Frey Carl Benedikt)(Pevná vazba)

The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation (Frey Carl Benedikt)(Pevná vazba)

'Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently.'--David Byrne, New York Times Book Review How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age

The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation (Frey Carl Benedikt)(Paperback)

'Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently.'--David Byrne, New York Times Book Review How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age

Automation and the Future of Work (Benanav Aaron)(Pevná vazba)

A polemic account of automation technologies and their effect on workplaces and the labor market Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living through an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as such. But

The Rent of Form: Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age (Arantes Pedro Fiori)(Pevná vazba)

A critique of prominent architects' approach to digitally driven design and labor practices over the past two decades With the advent of revolutionary digital design and production technologies, contemporary architects and their clients developed a taste for dramatic, unconventional forms. Seeking

Technology and Society: A World History (Ede Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

Technology and Society: A World History explores the creative power of humanity from the age of stone tools to the digital revolution. It introduces technology as a series of systems that allowed us to solve real-world problems and create a global civilization. The history of technology is also the

Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980 (Green Venus)(Pevná vazba)

Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum: Locating Terminal Landscapes (Diamanti Jeff)(Pevná vazba)

Jeff Diamanti describes the destructive relationship between climate and capital through the exponential growth of the petroleum industry over the last 40 years. Building on key insights in the environmental and energy humanities, Diamanti introduces the concept of the 'terminal landscape' as a

Faster, Better, Cheaper in the History of Manufacturing: From the Stone Age to Lean Manufacturing and Beyond (Roser Christoph)(Pevná vazba)

The industrial revolution, mechanization, water and steam power, computers, and automation have given an enormous boost to manufacturing productivity. Faster, Better, Cheaper in the History of Manufacturing shows how the ability to make products faster, better, and cheaper has evolved from the

Remaking the News: Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital Age (Boczkowski Pablo J.)(Pevná vazba)

Leading scholars chart the future of studies on technology and journalism in the digital age.The use of digital technology has transformed the way news is produced, distributed, and received. Just as media organizations and journalists have realized that technology is a central and indispensable

The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, Second Edition (Winner Langdon)(Paperback)

'In an age in which the inexhaustible power of scientific technology makes all things possible, it remains to be seen where we will draw the line, where we will be able to say, here are possibilities that wisdom suggest we avoid.' First published to great acclaim in 1988, Langdon Winner's

The Drone Age: How Drone Technology Will Change War and Peace (Boyle Michael J.)(Pevná vazba)

In The Drone Age, Michael J. Boyle addresses some of the biggest questions surrounding the impact of drones on our world today and the risks that we might face tomorrow. Will drones produce a safer world because they reduce risk to pilots, or will the prospect of clean, remote warfare lead

The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Age of the Robot (Bootle Roger)(Pevná vazba)

Extraordinary innovations in technology promise to transform the world, but how realistic is the claim that AI will change our lives? In this much needed book the acclaimed economist Roger Bootle responds to the fascinating economic questions posed by the age of the robot, steering a path away from

Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy (Lukcs Gabriella)(Pevná vazba)

In the wake of labor market deregulation during the 2000s, online content sharing and social networking platforms were promoted in Japan as new sites of work that were accessible to anyone. Enticed by the chance to build personally fulfilling careers, many young women entered Japan's digital

Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank (Jacoby Sanford M.)(Pevná vazba)

From award-winning economic historian Sanford M. Jacoby, a fascinating and important study of the labor movement and shareholder capitalism Since the 1970s, American unions have shrunk dramatically, as has their economic clout. Labor in the Age of Finance traces the search for new sources of power,

Conspiracy of Capital - Law, Violence, and American Popular Radicalism in the Age of Monopoly (Cohen Michael Mark)(Pevná vazba)

Between the 1880s and 1920s, a broad coalition of American dissidents, which included rabble-rousing cartoonists, civil liberties lawyers, socialist detectives, union organizers, and revolutionary martyrs, forged a culture of popular radicalism that directly challenged an emergent corporate

Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets Through Capital, Power, and Labor (Sparkly Kat Alice)(Paperback)

Tapping into the political power of magic and astrology for social, community, and personal transformation. In a cross-cultural approach to understanding astrology as a magical language, Alice Sparkly Kat unmasks the political power of astrology, showing how it can be channeled as a force for

Modern Sovereign: The Body of Power in Central Africa (Congo and Gabon) (Tonda Joseph)(Pevná vazba)

The 'Modern Sovereign,' a notion indebted both to Hobbes's Leviathan and Marx's conception of capital, refers to the power that governed the African multitudes from the earliest colonial days to the post-colonial era. It is an internalized power, responsible for the multiform violence exerted on

The Rise of Neoliberal Philosophy: Human Capital, Profitable Knowledge, and the Love of Wisdom (Absher Brandon)(Pevná vazba)

In The Rise of Neoliberal Philosophy: Human Capital, Profitable Knowledge, and the Love of Wisdom, Brandon Absher argues that the neoliberal transformation of higher education has resulted in a paradigm shift in philosophy in the United States, leading to the rise of neoliberal philosophy

Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World (Iansiti Marco)(Pevná vazba)

Harvard Business School experts on technology, strategy and operations explain how artificial intelligence and digital technologies are fundamentally changing the structure of the economy and how companies compete within it.Shows that the era of artificial intelligence is characterized by the

Shifting Capital: Mercantilism and the Economics of the Act of Union of 1707 (Ramos Aida)(Pevná vazba)

When the Act of Union was passed in 1707, Scottish parliament was dissolved and the nation's capital became London. While the general public balked at the perceived unfairness of the treaty, the majority of Scottish ministers seemed satisfied with its terms. This book offers an explanation of how

The Age of Wire and String (Marcus Ben)(Pevná vazba)

In The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection - part fiction, part handbook - as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar

Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique (Morton David)(Paperback)

Age of Concrete is a history of the making of houses and homes in the sub rbios of Maputo (Louren o Marques), Mozambique, from the late 1940s to the present. Often dismissed as undifferentiated, ahistorical 'slums,' these neighborhoods are in fact an open-air archive that reveals some of people's

Echo and Narcissus: Echolocating the Spectator in the Age of Audience Research (Petek Polona)(Pevná vazba)

Echo and Narcissus: Echolocating the Spectator in the Age of Audience Research came about as a response to the recent shift of focus in the studies of cinema. While the seventies and the eighties were marked by increasingly complex theorisations of spectatorship, the last two decades have witnessed

Texts and readers in the Age of Marvell (D'Addario Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell offers fresh perspectives from leading and emerging scholars on seventeenth-century British literature, with a focus on the surprising ways that texts interacted with writers and readers at specific cultural