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In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power

Book by Shoshana Zuboff · 3 quotes · Body, Action, Technology

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“The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers' intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.”