What a Marxist Classic Can Teach Us About AI
Almost 50 years ago, Harry Braverman’s Labor and Monopoly Capital showed us how workers can become the masters of technology rather than letting it rule over them.
2 Articles by: Mark Allison
Mark Allison is a professor of English at Ohio Wesleyan University and the author of Imagining Socialism: Aesthetics, Anti-politics, and Literature in Britain,1817–1918.
What a Marxist Classic Can Teach Us About Embracing AI
Almost 50 years ago, metalworker and economist Harry Braverman published Labor and Monopoly Capitalism. It showed how bosses use technology to disempower workers — but that by taking control of the labor process, workers can free themselves from drudgery.