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Digitalization in Industry

Between Domination and Emancipation

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Editors:
  1. Uli Meyer

    1. Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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  2. Simon Schaupp

    1. Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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  3. David Seibt

    1. Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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  • Explores the relationships between digitalized industries and social emancipation
  • Situates industrial production within larger social contexts
  • Brings together varied perspectives on organization, work, design and the body

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Toward an Analytical Understanding of Domination and Emancipation in Digitalizing Industries

    • David Seibt, Simon Schaupp, Uli Meyer
    Pages 1-25

  3. Emancipation and Domination in the Workplace

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Labor Democracy in Digitalizing Industries: Emancipating or “Sandboxing” Participation in Discourses on Technology and New Forms of Work?

      • Yannick Kalff
      Pages 29-60

    3. From Lean Production to Industrie 4.0: More Autonomy for Employees?

      • Florian Butollo, Ulrich Jürgens, Martin Krzywdzinski
      Pages 61-80

    4. “Designing Freedom”: On (Post)Industrial Governmentality and Its Cybernetic Fundaments

      • Felix Maschewski, Anna-Verena Nosthoff
      Pages 81-110

    5. It’s All in the Game: Emancipation in Digitalized Working Environments

      • Janosch Schobin, Philipp Staab
      Pages 111-131

  4. Promises of Emancipation Through Digital Fabrication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Concrete Utopias of Digitalization Compared: The Case of the Post-Work and the Maker Movements

      • Philipp Frey, Christoph Schneider
      Pages 135-152

    3. Controlling Labor in Makeathons: On the Recuperation of Emancipation in Industrial Labor Processes

      • Klara-Aylin Wenten
      Pages 153-177

    4. Unpacking Reshoring: The GE GeoSpring Case

      • ginger coons
      Pages 179-203

  5. Emancipating, Configuring, and Infrastructuring Users

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. Digital Platforms: Producing and Infrastructuring Users in the Age of Airbnb

      • Attila Bruni, Fabio M. Esposito
      Pages 207-232

    3. Governing the Elderly Body: Technocare Policy and Industrial Promises of Freedom

      • Gunhild Tøndel, David Seibt
      Pages 233-259

    4. The Digitalization of Musical Instruments and Musical Practice

      • Andreas Möllenkamp
      Pages 261-283

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 285-289
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Uli Meyer, Simon Schaupp, David Seibt

About the editors

Simon J. Schaupp is a PhD candidate and assistant at the chair for social structure analysis of the University of Basel, Switzerland. He published on the techno-politics of algorithmic management and cybernetization.

David Seibt is a PhD candidate at the Munich Center for Technology in Society at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He works on the connection of digital fabrication, industrial organization, and the industrial configuration of users.

Uli Meyer is head of the Post-Doc Lab Reorganizing Industries at the Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is acting professor for the Sociology of Digital Work at the Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany. His research focuses on the reorganization of contemporary industries in the wake of the most recent wave of digitalization.


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