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Automation
Mechanization, labor displacement, productivity, skill, and control over production.
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The Gig Economy: A Marxist Analysis of Wages and Work
An essay applying Marx's analysis of wages and competition to app-based work, including Uber and DoorDash.
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Artificial Intelligence and Work: A Marxist Analysis
A Marxist analysis of artificial intelligence, ownership, machine productivity, and work, drawing on Marx and Engels.
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Machinery, Productivity, and Relative Surplus Value
Module 6 of Capital and Political Economy: distinguish machinery's technical capacities from its capitalist use and trace how productivity reorganizes necessary and surplus labor.
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Technology, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence
Analyze technology as a social relation shaped by ownership, management, skill, labor control, public investment, and political choice.