Technical progress may become incompatible with industrialization’s own institutions.
Evidence
What is at stake in these technological changes is far more than a pay system, the relation of the worker to other classes, and the organization of work. What is at stake is the compatibility of technical progress with the very institutions in which industrialization developed. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 183
Categorization
- XREF: Automation undercutting the institutions of industrialization prefigures later debates on post-work and UBI. — connects to: Technical administration makes the possibility of liberation progressively more unimaginable — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 119; Contradictions in industrial society do not resolve themselves automatically — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 877; Pre-industrial populations untransformed into wage labor might industrialize differently. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 221 (+6 more)
- SEED: Article angle: when automation breaks the measurement that justified wages, what legitimizes the wage system at all?
Broader Connections
- Contradictions in industrial society do not resolve themselves automatically
#expands(0.82) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 877 - Industrial civilization can develop inside a feudal-bureaucratic shell
#exemplifies(0.80) - Each mode of production is driven forward by overcoming its own contradictions
#expands(0.78) - Pre-industrial populations untransformed into wage labor might industrialize differently.
#qualifies(0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 221 - Full automation is incompatible with capitalist private exploitation of labor
#expands(0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 197 - Historical change alters how invariant productive elements combine, not the elements themselves.
#qualifies(0.72)