@booklet {11475, title = {Arbeitskraft}, howpublished = {The Mammoth Book of Steampunk}, year = {2012}, note = {

Rpt. in\ Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2012), 105-23; and in the author\&$\#$39;s\ The People\’s Republic of Everything (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 11-37, with an author\’s note on 36-37.

}, month = {2012}, pages = {440-61}, publisher = {London/New York}, address = {Robinson/Running Press}, abstract = {

The complex satire is told from the point-of-view of Friedrich Engels and begins in a steampunk world in which the mechanicals that were made possible by Charles Babbage\’s Difference Engine are treated as badly as human workers. Engels remains a revolutionary and repurposes the Difference Engine into a Dialectical Engine, essentially an Artificial Intelligence, designed to write the fifth volume of Marx\’s Capital, which includes a description of a future in which the collective mind of the working class has been fed into the Difference Engine.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {9780762444687 ‎978-1616963002 }, author = {Nick Mamatas (b. 1972)}, editor = {Wallace, Sean} }