This book traces how the current wave of industrial digitalization relates to processes of domination and emancipation. It aims to counter techno-deterministic narratives that would connect a perceived new ‘industrial revolution’ with clear-cut societal consequences. In order to do this, the volume intervenes into three ongoing discussions which pertain to emancipation and domination in the workplace, promises of emancipation through digital fabrication, and the idea of emancipating, configuring, and infrastructuring the users of industrial products. Within this framework it addresses topics including democratic participation, management thinking, gamification, the maker movement, reshoring, digital platforms, and the automation of healthcare.
Author(s): Uli Meyer, Simon Schaupp, David Seibt
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 293
Tags: Digital/New Media
Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Toward an Analytical Understanding of Domination and Emancipation in Digitalizing Industries (David Seibt, Simon Schaupp, Uli Meyer)....Pages 1-25
Front Matter ....Pages 27-27
Labor Democracy in Digitalizing Industries: Emancipating or “Sandboxing” Participation in Discourses on Technology and New Forms of Work? (Yannick Kalff)....Pages 29-60
From Lean Production to Industrie 4.0: More Autonomy for Employees? (Florian Butollo, Ulrich Jürgens, Martin Krzywdzinski)....Pages 61-80
“Designing Freedom”: On (Post)Industrial Governmentality and Its Cybernetic Fundaments (Felix Maschewski, Anna-Verena Nosthoff)....Pages 81-110
It’s All in the Game: Emancipation in Digitalized Working Environments (Janosch Schobin, Philipp Staab)....Pages 111-131
Front Matter ....Pages 133-133
Concrete Utopias of Digitalization Compared: The Case of the Post-Work and the Maker Movements (Philipp Frey, Christoph Schneider)....Pages 135-152
Controlling Labor in Makeathons: On the Recuperation of Emancipation in Industrial Labor Processes (Klara-Aylin Wenten)....Pages 153-177
Unpacking Reshoring: The GE GeoSpring Case (ginger coons)....Pages 179-203
Front Matter ....Pages 205-205
Digital Platforms: Producing and Infrastructuring Users in the Age of Airbnb (Attila Bruni, Fabio M. Esposito)....Pages 207-232
Governing the Elderly Body: Technocare Policy and Industrial Promises of Freedom (Gunhild Tøndel, David Seibt)....Pages 233-259
The Digitalization of Musical Instruments and Musical Practice (Andreas Möllenkamp)....Pages 261-283
Back Matter ....Pages 285-289
