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Hi-Tech Luddism

Gavin Mueller
from Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job (2021)
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How does the worker, threatened by the alien powers of technology, fight back? Describe a particular “battlefield of technique” between labor and capital (or in the terms of this text, between the white collar proletariat and management). The scenario you describe can be drawn examples in the text, or from something you’ve observed or otherwise read about. Or you could make it up.