CfP: Workers and Technological Change
Technological change has produced hopes of growth and expectations of unemployment in the history of capitalism. The introduction of generative artificial intelligence (AI) into production processes in industry and services across the world economy has given this issue renewed urgency today. Certain dominant firms present AI as the necessary instrument for the reorganisation and automation of labour processes and the replacement of unnecessary jobs. Some economic historians predict rapid change and ‘technological traps’ comparable to the 1960s, 1930s, 1880s, and 1830s.