Cutting edge technology, information capitalism and social revolution

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Introduction: Integrated Circuits, Circuits of Capital, and Revolutionary Change -- Pt. I. Theories and Trajectories. 2. Robots and Capitalism / Tessa Morris-Suzuki. 3. Why Machines Cannot Create Value; or, Marx's Theory of Machines / George Caffentzis. 4. Capitalism in the Computer Age and Afterword / Tessa Morris-Suzuki. 5. High-Tech Hype: Promises and Realities of Technology in the Twenty-First Century / Guglielmo Carchedi. 6. Value Creation in the Late Twentieth Century: The Rise of the Knowledge Worker / Martin Kenney. 7. The Information Commodity: A Preliminary View / Dan Schiller. 8. The Digital Advantage / Jim Davis and Michael Stack. 9. The Biotechnology Revolution: Self-Replicating Factories and the Ownership of Life Forms / Jonathan King. 10. Structural Unemployment and the Qualitative Transformation of Capitalism / Thomas A. Hirschl -- Pt. II. Conflicts and Transformations. 11. How Will North America Work in the Twenty-First Century? / Sally Lerner.

12. Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism / Nick Witheford. 13. A Note on Automation and Alienation / Ramin Ramtin. 14. New Technologies, Neoliberalism and Social Polarization in Mexico's Agriculture / Gerardo Otero, Steffanie Scott and Chris Gilbreth. 15. The New Technological Imperative in Africa: Class Struggle on the Edge of Third-Wave Revolution / Abdul Alkalimat. 16. Heresies and Prophecies: The Social and Political Fallout of the Technological Revolution / A. Sivanandan. 17. The Birth of a Modern Proletariat / Nelson Peery.