How does technology affect work and workers? Is the introduction of technological innovations in production and work methods an objectively progressive process that allows for less and less grueling work, potentially pushing towards a "luxury communism"? Or is it perhaps a neutral technical practice, whose impact depends solely on how each technology is used?

Gavin Müller returns to the historical movement of the Luddites to reconstruct the underground current of a history of labor struggles against the establishment of power relations in workplaces through technological innovation. This sheds light on the repressed ludditism of everyday resistance movements against mechanization, automation, and cyberization that resonates to this day, urging us to confront the reorganization of work and leisure, to curb the escalating exploitation, to reclaim knowledge and control over the product and the conditions of our work—in short, to "break machines."