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Technology
Technology as a social relation shaped by ownership, institutions, labor, and political choice.
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Analysis
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.
Learning
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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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From Abstract Categories to a Concrete Analysis
Module 10 of Capital and Political Economy: use Marx's abstract-to-concrete method and the machine fragment to construct a cumulative industry analysis.
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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.