A powerful exploration of how socio-politics drives technological change in the workplace, rather than the reverse. Also, nearly 70 years later, a good explanation of what's happening with "AI". Unfortunately this article is still paywalled, which provides it's own meta-commentary.
Technological determinism is not simply an intellectual shortcoming ; it is politically dangerous. Depicting an inexorable, disembodied, and omnipotent historical force that rules out human action and choice, it fosters passivity, quiescence, and resignation, and their correlates, cynicism and despair.