Table of Contents
Preface Leo Panitch Greg Albo ix
Reaping the whirlwind: Digitalization, restructuring, and mobilization in the Covid crisis Ursula Huwa 1
The time of our lives: Reflections on work and capitalist temporality Bryan D. Palmer 14
Interpretation machines: Contradictions of 'artificial intelligence' in 21st-century capitalism Larry Lohmann 50
The political economy of datafication and work: A new digital Taylorism? Matthew Cole Hugo Radice Charles Umney 78
The big tech monopolies and the state Grace Blakeley 100
Socialists on social media platforms: Communicating within and against digital capitalism Tanner Mirrlees 112
Imagining platform socialism Derek Hrynyshyn 137
Working-class cinema in the age of digital capitalism Massimiliano Mollona 153
The surveillance of service labour: Conditions and possibilities of resistance Joan Sangster 175
From neoliberal fashion to new ways of clothing Jerónimo Montero Bressán 201
Shifting gears: Labour strategies for low-carbon public transit mobility Sean Sweeney John Treat 218
Community restaurants: Decommodifying food as socialist strategy Benjamin Selwyn 235
Start early, stay late: Planning for care in old age Pat Armstrong Huw Armstrong 246
Health care, technology, and socialized medicine Pritha Chandra Pratyush Chandra 257
Life after the pandemic: From production for profit to provision for need Christoph Hermann 274
Democratic socialist planning Back to the future Robin Hahnel 291
Postcapitalism: Alternatives or detours? Greg Albo 310