Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces; Digitalisierung als Distributivkraft. Über das Neue am digitalen Kapitalismus

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Pfeiffer, Sabine
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English; GermanAbstract
Are robots taking away our jobs? Those who ask this question have misunderstood digitalisation - it is not an industrial revolution by other means. Sabine Pfeiffer searches for the actual novelties brought about by digitalisation and digital capitalism. In her analysis, she juxtaposes Marx's concept of productive force with the idea of distributive force. From the platform economy to artificial intelligence, Pfeiffer shows that digital capitalism is less about the efficient production of value, but rather about its fast, risk-free, and permanently secured realisation on the markets. The examination of this dynamic and its consequences also leads to the question of how destructive the distributive forces of digital capitalism might be.
Keywords
Work; Technology; Economy; Economic Sociology; Capitalism; Sociology of Technology; SociologyISBN
9783839458938, 9783837658934, 9783732858934Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
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Bielefeld, 2022Imprint
transcript VerlagSeries
X-Texte zu Kultur und Gesellschaft,Classification
Sociology
Impact of science & technology on society