Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right about Why You Hate Your Job by Gavin Mueller

Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right about Why You Hate Your Job by Gavin Mueller

Author:Gavin Mueller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Verso


To be sure, romantic, and reactionary, notions of nature abounded in the counterculture—the “goddesses” that technology theorist Donna Haraway disdains in favor of cyborgs. 93 But the enthusiasm for technology also caused Firestone to make outsized claims. Even under capitalist patriarchy, Firestone believed in automation’s progressive effects on gender relations:

Job discrimination would no longer have any basis in a society where machines do the work better than human beings of any size or skill could. Machines thus could act as the perfect equalizer, obliterating the class system based on exploitation of labor. 94



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