v Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgements viii Notes on Contributors ix 1 Labour Process Theory and the New Digital Workplace 1 Kendra Briken, Shiona Chillas, Martin Krzywdzinski and Abigail Marks Part I Robots and Virtualities – the Changing Face of Manufacturing Work 2 Industrie 4.0 in the Making – Discourse Patterns and the Rise of Digital Despotism 21 Sabine Pfeiffer 3 ‘Made in China 2025’: Intelligent Manufacturing and Work 42 Florian Butollo and Boy Lüthje 4 Virtual Temptations: Reorganising Work under Conditions of Digitisation, Virtualisation and Informatisation 62 Mascha Will-Zocholl Copyrighted material – 9781137610133 Copyrighted material – 9781137610133