Socialist Register 2021

Contents: Ursula Huws: Reaping the whirlwind: Digitalization, restructuring, and mobilization in the Covid crisis; Bryan D. Palmer: The time of our lives: Reflections on work and capitalist temporality; Larry Lohmann: Interpretation machines: Contradictions of ‘artificial intelligence’ in 21st century capitalism; Matthew Cole, Hugo Radice & Charles Umney: The political economy of datafication and work: A new digital Taylorism?; Grace Blakeley: The big tech monopolies and the state; Tanner Mirrlees: Socialists on social media platforms: Communicating within and against digital capitalism; Derek Hrynyshyn: Imagining platform socialism; Massimiliano Mollona: Working-class cinema in the age of digital capitalism; Joan Sangster: The surveillance of service labour: Conditions and possibilities of resistance; Jerónimo Montero Bressán: From neoliberal fashion to new ways of clothing; Sean Sweeney & John Treat: Shifting gears: Labour strategies for low-carbon public transit mobility; Benjamin Selwyn: Community restaurants: Decommodifying food as socialist strategy; Pat Armstrong & Huw Armstrong: Start early, stay late: Planning for care in old age; Pritha Chandra & Pratyush Chandra: Health care, technology, and socialized medicine; Christoph Hermann: Life after the pandemic: From production for profit to provision for need; Robin Hahnel: Democratic socialist planning: Back to the future; Greg Albo: Postcapitalism: Alternatives or detours?