Automation

answer the questions below in a few (i.e., 3-4) sentences. it will probably be a good idea to mark the passages and note down the page numbers where you found your answers. 1) Chapter 1 of Automation and the Future of Work is entitled "The Automation Discourse." In your own words (but don't forget to mark and perhaps even quote directly from the passages where you find your answer...), describe what Benanav means by "the automation discourse," "an influential social theory that purports not only to analyze current technologies and predict their future, but also to explore the consequences of technological change for society at large" (Benanav, 2). You might start by re-reading the "four principal propositions" (2) on which, according to Benanav, the "automation discourse" rests... 2) Explain Wassily Leontief's "insight" (7) and its significance for the "automation discourse." 3) According to Benanav, the automation theorists have identified a very real problem in the world: "global capitalism is failing to provide jobs for many of the people who need them" (9). But Benanav emphatically disagrees with these theorists when it comes to their analysis and explanation of this "labor underdemand problem" (11). What are the main "counterarguments" (11) that Benanav says he'll be making in his book? That is, how will Benanav be disagreeing with the automation theorists, despite admiring them in many respects as "our late-capitalist utopians" (11)?