Digital Taylorism w/ Matt Cole, Hugo Radice and Charles Umney

The Political Economy of Datafication and Work: A New Digital Taylorism? with Matthew Cole, Hugo Radice and Charles Umney This panel looks at the technologies that underpin our world of work, and how capital shapes them to meet its needs, oriented firmly toward the subsumption of wage labour. We cannot repurpose them toward our socialist goal to build a world based upon equality and justice for all without directly contesting the existing social order. This requires both a broad vision of a sustainable, egalitarian and democratic society, and concrete proposals that connect to existing struggles and also prefigure radical change. Recorded online 28 February 2021, part of the Socialist Register 2021 series.