TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davis,Jim
AU  - Hirschl,Thomas A
AU  - Stack,Michael
TI  - Cutting edge : technology, information capitalism and social revolution 
SN  - 9781859841853
U1  - 303.4834 22
PY  - 1997///
CY  - London 
PB  - Verso
KW  - Computers and civilization
KW  - Information technology
N1  - 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
ER  -