Overview

This book traces how the current wave of industrial digitalization relates to processes of domination and emancipation. It aims to counter techno-deterministic narratives that would connect a perceived new ‘industrial revolution’ with clear-cut societal consequences. In order to do this, the volume intervenes into three ongoing discussions which pertain to  emancipation and domination in the workplace, promises of emancipation through digital fabrication, and the idea of emancipating, configuring, and infrastructuring the users of industrial products. Within this framework it addresses topics including democratic participation, management thinking, gamification, the maker movement, reshoring, digital platforms, and the automation of healthcare.

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Author:   Uli Meyer ,  Simon Schaupp ,  David Seibt
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
Weight:   0.524kg
ISBN:  

9783030282578

ISBN 10:   3030282570
Pages:   289
Publication Date:   26 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Chapter 1: Towards an Analytical Understanding of Domination and Emancipation in Digitalized IndustriesPart I. Emancipation and Domination int he WorkplaceChapter 2: Democratic Labor in Digitalizing Industries: Emancipatory Potentials in Discourses on Technology and New Forms of Work?Chapter 3: From Lean Production to Industrie 4.0: More Autonomy for Employees?Chapter 4: ""Designing Freedom"": On (post-)Industrial Governmentality and its Cybernetic FundamentsChapter 5: It's All in the Game: Emancipation in Digitalized Working EnvironmentsPart II: Promises of Emancipation Through Digital FabricationChapter 6: Concrete Utopias of Digitalization Compared: The Case of the Post-Work and the Maker MovementsChapter 7: Governing Labor in the Making? On the Relationship between Autonomy and Control in Innovation ProcessesChapter 8: Unpacking Reshoring: The GE GeoSpring CasePart III: Emancipating, Configuring, and Infrastructuring UsersChapter 9: Digital Platforms: Producing Users in the Age of AirBnBChapter 10: Governing the Old Body: Technocare Policy and Industrial Promises of FreedomChapter 11: The Digitalization of Musical Instruments and Musical Practice"

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Simon J. Schaupp is a PhD candidate and assistant at the chair for social structure analysis of the University of Basel, Switzerland. He published on the techno-politics of algorithmic management and cybernetization. David Seibt is a PhD candidate at the Munich Center for Technology in Society at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He works on the connection of digital fabrication, industrial organization, and the industrial configuration of users. Uli Meyer is head of the Post-Doc Lab Reorganizing Industries at the Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is acting professor for the Sociology of Digital Work at the Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany. His research focuses on the reorganization of contemporary industries in the wake of the most recent wave of digitalization.

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