Книга «The dignity of labour» автора Джона Круддаса является актуальным исследованием ключевого вопроса о важности работы для нашего общества. В ней подробно описывается, как технический прогресс постепенно вытесняет человеческий труд, а вместо него люди получают только свободу и базовый доход.
Автор утверждает, что левые должны отвергнуть пагубный принцип технологического детерминизма и больше сфокусироваться на важности рабочих мест в жизни людей. Он показывает, как история марксистской и социал-демократической мысли рассматривает вопросы труда и критикует как фанатичность сторонников радикализма, так и безнадежное самомнение техноутопистов.
В ходе анализа автор выявляет общие проблемы социал-демов и технократов,
Does work give our life purpose, meaning, and status, or is it merely a tiresome necessity that is going to be replaced soon by automation, allowing humans finally to enjoy leisure and simply receiving income? In this eruditely-challenging read, Jon Cruddas MEP argues that the Left has to resist the call of technological pseudo-determinism and firm its roots within the workplace instead. With his expertise on his constituency of Dagenham & Rainham, he delves into the past theories of Marxism and social democracy concerning labour and criticises the fatalistic tendancies of neo-liberalism as well as radical techno-optimism on the Left. Cruddas assert that, particularly in current circumstances of COVID 19-induced facing, socialists have got to endorse an ethical outlook focused on the value and creativity of labour. This timely book makes an innovative evaluation of one of the hottest and most heated debates right now – the future of labour – along with an expansive overview for how the Left should refocus its awareness once more, before it becomes irrelevant.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9781509540808
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Does work give our lives purpose, meaning and status? Or is it a tedious necessity that will soon be abolished by automation, leaving humans free to enjoy a life of leisure and basic income? In this erudite and highly readable book, Jon Cruddas MP argues that it is imperative that the Left rejects the siren call of technological determinism and roots it politics firmly in the workplace. Drawing from his experience of his own Dagenham and Rainham constituency, he examines the history of Marxist and social democratic thinking about work in order to critique the fatalism of both Blairism and radical left techno-utopianism, which, he contends, have more in common than either would like to admit. He argues that, especially in the context of COVID-19, socialists must embrace an ethical socialist politics based on the dignity and agency of the labour interest. This timely book is a brilliant intervention in the highly contentious debate on the future of work, as well as an ambitious account of how the left must rediscover its animating purpose or risk irrelevance.
