In this eye-opening book, Lorenzo Fioramonti provides a much-needed critique of the current 'data fever', showing both the direct consequences and indirect implications of the increasing power of numbers. At the same time, it investigates innovative attempts to resist the invasion of mainstream...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Nineteenth Century: Framework Stimulants, Destructive Competition and the Making of Oligopoly Capitalism -- 2. Working-Class Resistance, the State-Supported Capitalist Response, the Mechanization of Industry and the Defeat of...