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High-technology industrial capitalism has transformed the economic, social and political relationships of the modern world. Industrial production itself now involves computerization, automation, robotization and global sourcing. Both financial markets and labor markets are organized on a global basis, while white-collar administration has become fully computerized and blue-collar labor increasingly robotized.
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Glassman, R.M. (2000). Prologue: the Productive Miracle and the Specific Pattern of Social Problems Engendered by It. In: Caring Capitalism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333985427_1
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