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Social Effects of the Scientific and Technological Revolution Under Capitalism

Social Effects of the Scientific and Technological Revolution Under Capitalism N. Gauzner Novosti Press Agency Publishing House Moscow, 1973 Contents Introduction 3 Basic Features of the Scientific and Technological Revolution 6 The Role of Man in the World of Automation 28 Shifts in the Social Structure of Capitalist Society 44 Changes in Working Conditions and Way of Life 88 Does Automation Mean Fewer Jobs? 120 Contradictions of the Scientific and Technological Revolution Under State-Monopoly Capitalism 135 The Scientific and Technological Revolution, Socialism and Communism 166 INTRODUCTION Science and technology are today developing at an ever increasing rate. The outstanding achievements of modern science and technology, which have been embodied in spaceships and automatic space devices, in lightning-quick electronic computers, in atomic power stations, in the deciphering of the genetic code, in the transplantation of human organs, and in many other fields have increased the impact of man on his environment. At the same time these achievements have fundamentally affected the relations between people. Never before have science and technology intruded so insistently upon the var

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