Farewell to Work?

Essays on the World of Work's Metamorphoses and Centrality

AvRicardo Antunes

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Del i serien Studies in Critical Social Science

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Farewell to Work? presents the large process of capital's productive restructuring, triggered in the 1970s—a process with tendencies to both intellectualize labour power and increase the levels of the working class' precariousness on a global scale.This book hypothesizes that instead of work's loss of centrality in contemporary capitalism, when the world of production is analysed in its global dimension, including countries in the North and South, a substantial process of growing heterogeneity, complexity, and fragmentation is observed. The resulting configuration is a new morphology of the working class. Therefore, as new mechanisms are created to generate surplus labour, there is, simultaneously, an increment in casualisation and unemployment, pushed by the ongoing corrosion of labour rights in countries all across the globe.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-11-15
Mått:152 x 228 x 14 mm
Vikt:228 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Critical Social Science
Antal sidor:134
Förlag:Haymarket Books
ISBN:9781642598018

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Ricardo Antunes is a Full Professor of Sociology (University of Campinas) and author of The Meanings of Work and Addio al lavoro?, among other books. He was Visiting Professor at University Ca'Foscari and a Visiting Researcher at University of Sussex.

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ForewordPreface to the English editionAcknowledgementsList of TablesIntroductionpart 1Heterogeneity and Fragmentation of the Working Class1 Fordism, Toyotism and Flexible Accumulation2 Metamorphoses in the World of Work3 Dimensions of the Trade Unionism’s Contemporary Crisis Dilemmas and Challenges4 Which Crisis of Labour Society?1 First Thesis2 Second Thesis3 Third Thesis4 Fourth Thesis5 Fifth Thesispart 2Labour’s New Morphology5 The Explosion of the New Services Proletariat of the Digital Age1 The End of the Myth2 Service Work and Marx’s Fundamental Clues3 Can Immaterial Labour Generate Surplus Value?4 Middle Class, Precariat or the New Service Proletariat?6 Freeze-Dried Flexibility A New Morphology of Labour: Casualisation and Value1 Introduction2 Brazil in the New International Division of Labour3 The New Forms of Labour and Value: Tangibility and Intangibility4 The Design of the New Morphology of Labour7 The Working Class Today The New Form of Being of the Class-that-lives-from-Labour8 The Crisis Seen Globally Robert Kurz and the Collapse of Modernization1 An Explosive Book2 And Its Main Gaps9 The International Working Class in 1864 and Today1 Introduction2 The New Morphology of Labour: Informality, Casualisation, Infoproletariat, and Value3 ConclusionMaster ReferencesIndex