Niall Cullinane, Professor of Employment Relations, Queen's University of Belfast, UK

‘Niall Cullinane demonstrates encyclopedic knowledge of labor process transformation in successive technological revolutions. From Power Looms to Platforms is a compelling intellectual history and a good companion in the pursuit of human freedom, economic sustainability and democratic governance.’

• Contents1 Introduction: technology, labour process theory and thebook’s approach 2 Foundations of the labour process: history, technology andtransformation 3 Determinism, neutrality and the politics of technology 4 Embedded authority? Technology, labour and the dynamics ofcontrol 5 Technological change and the contested terrain of skill 6 The long bargain over technology 7 Alternative technologies and real utopias 8 Technologies and the future of work References

Niall Cullinane, Professor of Employment Relations, Queen's University of Belfast, UK

‘Niall Cullinane demonstrates encyclopedic knowledge of labor process transformation in successive technological revolutions. From Power Looms to Platforms is a compelling intellectual history and a good companion in the pursuit of human freedom, economic sustainability and democratic governance.’

• Contents1 Introduction: technology, labour process theory and thebook’s approach 2 Foundations of the labour process: history, technology andtransformation 3 Determinism, neutrality and the politics of technology 4 Embedded authority? Technology, labour and the dynamics ofcontrol 5 Technological change and the contested terrain of skill 6 The long bargain over technology 7 Alternative technologies and real utopias 8 Technologies and the future of work References

Niall Cullinane, Professor of Employment Relations, Queen's University of Belfast, UK

‘Niall Cullinane demonstrates encyclopedic knowledge of labor process transformation in successive technological revolutions. From Power Looms to Platforms is a compelling intellectual history and a good companion in the pursuit of human freedom, economic sustainability and democratic governance.’

• Contents1 Introduction: technology, labour process theory and thebook’s approach 2 Foundations of the labour process: history, technology andtransformation 3 Determinism, neutrality and the politics of technology 4 Embedded authority? Technology, labour and the dynamics ofcontrol 5 Technological change and the contested terrain of skill 6 The long bargain over technology 7 Alternative technologies and real utopias 8 Technologies and the future of work References