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That services are not amenable to the incremental process innovations that generate rapid rates of productivity growth is hardly an inherent feature of services as such: __in many service activities, impediments to raising productivity levels have been overcome, but precisely by industrializing them.__ As sociologist Jonathan Gershuny has argued, these services were transformed into goods for self-service in households, “the washing machine substituting for laundry services, the safety-razor for barbershop shaving, the motorcar for public transport.”
Automation and the Future of Work
Aaron Benanav
Liberal identity politics is a moderate (that is, non-radical) approach to social change, based on broadly liberal ideological commitments. It starts from the premise that deep and systemic social change is not necessary for reaching a free, equal, and democratic society, because society is already fairly close to this ideal. Social movements should therefore focus on making minor adjustments to laws, policies, and social norms, rather than on working for more systematic or radical change.
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
In general, the participants in the state-derivation debate proceeded from ‘an interpretation of Marx’s Capital not as a theory of the “economic” but as a theory of the social relations of capitalist society’, in the words of Simon Clarke. __This acknowledgement of the social nature of the political and the economic is a fundamental prerequisite not only of a theory of economic power but also of a theory of the state.__
Mute Compulsion
Søren Mau
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