2023/08/21

What Tech Workers Can Learn from Luddite Histories

● 21/08/2023
“If we truly want to break from the future that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have planned for us, with our blood in their machines, it could take more than legislation to do so. It might require a few hammers.”
– New media scholar and Breaking Things at Work (2021) author Gavin Mueller, on the surging relevancy of Luddite histories. Discussing Brian Merchant’s forthcoming book, Blood in the Machine (2023), Mueller argues that “focus on regulation and fair treatment” might not be enough to fend off automation.
New York Times
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