Breaking Things At Work: A Verso Roundtable

What can the Luddites teach us about the relationship between work and technology today? Gavin Mueller sets out to answer this question in his new book, Breaking Things At Work: The Luddites Were Right About Why You Hate Your Job. This week on the blog, we're hosting a roundtable with a focus on the same question, inviting responses to Mueller's book and publishing an exclusive extract for our readers from the work. 

Part 1: Fully Decelerated Carbon-Neutral Luddism, by James Muldoon

Part 2: How Value Weaponises the Machine, by Matt Cole

Part 3: Epidemic of Sabotage, by Gavin Mueller

Breaking Things at Work

by Gavin Mueller

In the Nineteenth-century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years the Luddites roamed the English country...