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Jason E Smith: ‘Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation’

Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on January 13, 2022 by Manu V Mathew (more by Marx & Philosophy) | (Posted Jan 14, 2022)

Smith begins with Friedrich Pollock’s definition of automation as a ‘technique of industrial production [in which] the machines are “controlled” by machines’, and shows that this trend of automation, while increasing labor productivity in the industrial and manufacturing sector, is also the reason for a lack of automation in the service sector.