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.

• 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

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.

• 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