{"id":3072,"date":"2023-03-31T21:18:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T21:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-podcasting-gig-work-is-the-opposite-of-steampunk-20-mar-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-03-31T21:18:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T21:18:19","slug":"pluralistic-podcasting-gig-work-is-the-opposite-of-steampunk-20-mar-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-podcasting-gig-work-is-the-opposite-of-steampunk-20-mar-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluralistic: Podcasting "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk" (20 Mar 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s links Podcasting “Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk”: Why today’s Luddites should be smashing apps. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming\/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Podcasting “Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk” (permalink) This week on my podcast, I read my recent Medium column, “Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk,” about the worst-of-all-worlds created by bossware, where an app is your boss, and you live at work because your home and\/or car is a branch office of the factory: https:\/\/doctorow.medium.com\/gig-work-is-the-opposite-of-steampunk-463e2730ef0d As with so much of my work these days, the column opens with a reference to the Luddites, and to Brian Merchant’s superb, forthcoming history of the Luddite uprisings, “Blood in the Machine”: https:\/\/www.littlebrown.com\/titles\/brian-merchant\/blood-in-the-machine\/9780316487740\/ As Merchant explains, the Luddites were anything but technophobes: they were skilled high-tech workers whose seven-year apprenticeships were the equivalent to getting a Master’s in Engineering from MIT. Their objection to powered textile machines had nothing to do with fear of the machines: rather, it was motivated by a clear-eyed understanding of how factory owners wanted to use the machines. The point of powered textile machines wasn’t to increase the productivity of skilled textile workers – rather, it was to smash the guilds that represented these skilled workers and ensured that they shared in the profits from their labor. The factory owners wanted machines so simple a child could use them – because they were picking…Pluralistic: Podcasting "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk" (20 Mar 2023)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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