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and Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine.

My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Gavin Muller.

This is part one of a two-part

conversation on his new book, Breaking Things at Work, The Luddites are right about why you

hate your job. In the first part of our conversation we talk about the history of the Luddites, why

their reputation for conservative technophobia is undeserved, and how their struggles to resist the

imposition of new

deskilling technologies are relevant to the contemporary workplace. We also talked about the

problems of left-wing techno-utopianism. Remember that if you would like to hear the extended

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