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Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces / Sabine Pfeiffer.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pfeiffer, Sabine, Author.
Series:
X-Texte zu Kultur und Gesellschaft
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource (282 p.)
Place of Publication:
Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2022]
Language Note:
In English.
Biography/History:
Pfeiffer Sabine : Sabine Pfeiffer (Dr. phil. habil.), geb. 1966, ist Professorin für Soziologie mit dem Schwerpunkt Technik, Arbeit, Gesellschaft an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg und Sprecherin des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms 2267 "Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelten". Nach Ausbildung und Berufstätigkeit als Werkzeugmacherin und Studium der Soziologie war sie u.a. am ISF München tätig sowie Professorin für »Innovation und kreative Entwicklung« an der Hochschule München und Professorin für Soziologie an der Universität Hohenheim. Sie forscht seit den 1990er Jahren zum Wandel von Arbeit und Digitalisierung und ist u.a. Mitglied im Forschungsbeirat der »Plattform Industrie 4.0« und im »Rat der Arbeitswelt«.
Summary:
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.
Contents:
Frontmatter
Content
1. Introduction
2. Digital Capitalism Revisited-again?
3. The First Blind Spot: Value in Digital Capitalism
4. Transformation and the Productive Forces
5. The Second Blind Spot: The Realisation of Value in (Digital) Capitalism
6. The Distributive Forces and (Digital) Capitalism: What is New?
7. The Distributive Forces and (Digital) Capitalism: Some Clarifications
8. The Distributive Forces in Digital Capitalism: Some Empirical Illustrations
9. Digitalisation: Distributive Force or Destructive Force?
Bibliography
List of Figures
Notes:
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)
ISBN:
3-8394-5893-5
Access Restriction:
Open access Unrestricted online access

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