digital labour
Taylor’s legacy: Sweat and exploitation in the digital factory
Taylor’s legacy: Sweat and exploitation in the digital factory
Meet Flippy, the burger grilling robot working in a fast-food chain. Flippy inspects the meat patty with image and thermal sensors, decides when it is done, and turns it with a spatula. The spectacle of automation draws customers’ attention, yet the robot relies on human assistance.
Control and becoming in the neoliberal teaching machine
In the first part of a scathing series of posts for the New Left Project focused on the ‘Big Society’ sham, Emma Dowling writes: