A growing body of literature is challenging techno-fetishistic perspectives on digital capitalism, as well as claims of the start of a new era characterized by total automation. This article contributes to the ongoing debate on the implications of digital technology for the future of labour by reading Moritz Altenried's The Digital Factory (2022) through the lens of labour history. The use of digital factory and digital Taylorism as integrative tools significantly improves empirical evaluations of different digital labour environments. However, because of their high degree of abstraction, there are a number of limitations when applying these concepts to describe wildly disparate work environments. To illustrate these limits, I use examples from twentieth-century debates on technology and work autonomy, and (1) argue that a labour history perspective warns us against overgeneralizing the effects of technology on labour control and worker autonomy, and (2) broaden the discussion to larger issues of labour control before and during digitalization, incorporating new theoretical questions such as our understanding of classical Taylorism and, by extension, capitalism.

越来越多的文献正在挑战关于数字资本主义的技术拜物教观点，以及以完全自动化为特征的新时代开始的说法。本文通过阅读莫里茨·阿尔滕里德 （Moritz Altenried） 的《数字工厂》（2022 年）从劳动历史的角度出发，为正在进行的关于数字技术对未来劳动影响的辩论做出了贡献。使用数字工厂和数字泰勒主义作为综合工具，显著改善了对不同数字劳动环境的实证评估。但是，由于它们的高度抽象性，在应用这些概念来描述截然不同的工作环境时，存在许多限制。为了说明这些局限性，我引用了 20 世纪关于技术和工作自主权的辩论的例子，并且 （1） 认为劳动历史视角警告我们不要过度概括技术对劳动控制和工人自主性的影响，以及 （2） 将讨论扩大到数字化之前和数字化期间的劳动控制这一更大的问题，纳入新的理论问题，例如我们对古典泰勒主义的理解以及 推而广之，资本主义。