Describe at least three of the text’s themes or topics that are of general interest to STS scholars.

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May 2, 2019

1) Mechanization of small scale works: the empirical study done by the author shows that how mechanization affected the job status, job availability etc in small industries such as electronics, garment sector. The future scholars can try to understand this direct impact of technology on a particular social class and what their reaction is and how they engage with it. It is also important to note that whether the technology is complementing the existing labour power or is it wiping out the labour force through the automation. The basic question is what the politics of technology in a workspace is and how workers reciprocate to it.

2) Comparison of the service sector and manufacturing industry: this comparative study helped us to crack the conventional belief of solely attaching service sector with technology and forgetting the manufacturing and other sectors as something primitive. One assumption put forward by the author is regarding the effect of technology in all sector irrespective of the way the technology is imagined in the labs. Further studies on how technology is affecting the conventional sector labour will help us to rethink about the relation between technology and labour.

3) Contradictions of globalization: other aspects scholars need to follow up is how the contradictions of globalization are related to the socio-technical imaginations in each society.  One of the few examples, some of the technology is implemented to make works easy and fast, but on the other hand, the excess workforce is accommodated through the service sector, which was again thinking about a networked society.

 

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