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Karma said the book, written in the 1980s, examined the early implementation of computers and workers' anxiety about alienation from their jobs. He noted it remains instructive for understanding modern labortechnology conflicts.
The first is In the Age of the Smart Machine by Shoshana Zuboff, who is also the author of the probably better known Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
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Karma said the book, written in the 1980s, examined the early implementation of computers and workers' anxiety about alienation from their jobs. He noted it remains instructive for understanding modern labortechnology conflicts.
The first is In the Age of the Smart Machine by Shoshana Zuboff, who is also the author of the probably better known Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
It was written in the 80s. So it doesn't really concern the internet so much, but it does sort of revolve around the early implementation of computers and this idea of the anxiety that workers felt sort of being alienated from the physical nature of their jobs with technology.