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Please complete the following table for the case study of Monsanto company
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/09/monsanto-continued-selling-pcbs-for-years-despite-knowing-health-risks-archives-
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You may base on the suggestions listed in the following table to complete the above table.
Technology and/or Does the story involve the impact of technology on people Information society (Castells)
networks and/or organisations? (e.g. automation, AI) Networks (Sheeky)
Does the story involve the creation of new opportunities? Technological development
Does the story involve degradation, risk and Labour process (Marx, Braverman etc)
subordination? Automation
Who controls the technology and its implementation? AI
Co-operation Does the story involve something being contested? (e.g. is Class politics and struggle (Marx)
and/or conflict one party trying to exploit another, ruin their environment hegemony
etc.) Mobilisation, collectivisation
Does the story involve struggle? New forms of capitalism (e.g. Mason)
Does the story involve the opening up of new
opportunities, of groups working together, mobilising,
organising etc)