In Friedrich Pollock's thinking, the analysis of the impact of technological transformations on the world of work plays a central role. From the essays of the late 1920s that led to the development of the concept of State capitalism, to the 1955 book Automation. A Study of its Economics and social Consequences, he was increasingly confronted with the tendency to create 'deserted factories' to 'replace the labour force with fully automatic processes' . It is then in reflecting on the social, cultural and political, as well as economic, effects of automation and cybernetics that Pollock's prognosis of late modern society as a 'totally administered society’. Pollock's role as mentor, as well as close collaborator and inseparable friend, of Max Horkheimer and the other authors of the Frankfurt School cannot be underestimated.
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Chapter Title
Friedrich Pollock e l’era dell’automazione
Authors
Nicola Emery
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Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.100
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2024
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Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
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Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
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1894
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2024
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Firenze University Press
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10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
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979-12-215-0245-9
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979-12-215-0319-7
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Series Title
Studi e saggi
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2704-6478
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2704-5919