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Automation and Worker (Dis)Empowerment: Mobilization, Bargaining, and Political Competition in Times of Technological Change

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utomation amplifies the fundamental question in the study of politics: who gets what, when, and how? Driven by computer and information technology, including pathbreaking advances in robotization and artificial intelligence (AI), it brings a combustive mix of productivity gains, machines displacing some jobs and enhancing others. The unfolding process of technological change has the potential to dramatically alter what ordinary people get at the workplace for their labor, and to spur polarizing political conflict over the basic rules of democratic capitalism. Several scholars emphasize that the consequences of technological change are not written in stone. However, our theoretical tools to analyze the interplay between automation and worker power are underdeveloped. Therefore, the overarching aim of (DIS)EMPOWER is to develop a much-needed theoretical framework of how automation shapes the power of workers in the workplace and in democratic politics, helping us to better understand the functioning of democratic capitalism in the face of transformative technological change. It argues

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