Automating amateurs in the 3D printing community: connecting the dots between ‘deskilling’ and ‘user-friendliness’
In this paper a case study of an open source, home-built 3D printer called ‘Rep-rap’ serves as an entry point to the deskilling debate. This debate has centred on Harry Braverman's proposition that deskilling is a general trend, given the prevalence of capitalist relations of production, or, di...
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| Language: | English |
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Pluto Journals
2013-06-01
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| Series: | Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation |
| Online Access: | https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/workorgalaboglob.7.1.0124 |