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Breaking Things At Work: A Verso Roundtable

Introducing the Verso Roundtable on Gavin Mueller's book, Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Were Right About Why You Hate Your Job

26 April 2021

Breaking Things At Work: A Verso Roundtable

What can the Luddites teach us about the relationship between work and technology today? Gavin Mueller sets out to answer this question in his new book, Breaking Things At Work: The Luddites Were Right About Why You Hate Your Job. This week on the blog, we're hosting a roundtable with a focus on the same question, inviting responses to Mueller's book and publishing an exclusive extract for our readers from the work. 

Part 1: Fully Decelerated Carbon-Neutral Luddism, by James Muldoon

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Part 2: How Value Weaponises the Machine, by Matt Cole

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Part 3: Epidemic of Sabotage, by Gavin Mueller

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Breaking Things at Work
In the Nineteenth-century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years the Luddites roamed the English country...