Theories about the impact of digital technology on society and the development of capitalism and debates about the influence of digital information technologies on the future of work have been abundant since the end of the twentieth century. Most of the academic debate has taken place outside labour history, leaving the actual effects of digital technologies on human work and labour relations often overlooked. Moritz Altenried's The Digital Factory: The Human Labor of Automation focuses precisely on these effects, and as such provides a good opportunity to engage with these debates from a labour history perspective. This Review Dossier includes four comments on Altenried's book, by Bridget Kenny, Nico Pizzolato, Görkem Akgöz, and Greg Downey, to which the author responds. The contributors focus on different aspects of The Digital Factory depending on their own perspective on recent developments in the digital economy in the larger context of global capitalism.

自 20 世纪末以来，关于数字技术对社会和资本主义发展的影响的理论以及关于数字信息技术对未来工作影响的辩论一直很丰富。大多数学术辩论都发生在劳工历史之外，数字技术对人类工作和劳资关系的实际影响往往被忽视。莫里茨·阿尔滕里德 （Moritz Altenried） 的《数字工厂：自动化的人类劳动》正是关注这些影响，因此提供了从劳动历史角度参与这些辩论的好机会。本评论汇编包括对 Altenried 的书的四条评论，作者分别是 Bridget Kenny、Nico Pizzolato、Görkem Akgöz 和 Greg Downey，作者对此做出了回应。撰稿人根据他们自己对全球资本主义更大背景下数字经济最新发展的看法，关注《数字工厂》的不同方面。