Future of Work

Super-exploitation and Social Precariousness in the 21st Century

AvAdrián Sotelo Valencia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Del 81 i serien Studies in Critical Social Sciences

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Beskrivning

This book analyses the processes, mutations and trends currently characterising the world of work that are bound up within the deep contradictions of a global capitalist system troubled by systemic crisis, where the old Fordist and Keynesian state order has been substituted by a minimal, pro-business neoliberal State founded on the intensive restructuring of economic and productive systems and work organisation, characterised by labour deregulation, flexibility, super-exploitation and social precariousness. This is a work that illustrates the paradigmatic transition from social and labour relations based on job security, comprehensive collective agreements and guaranteed social rights, towards new social relations that find their technical, political and organizational roots in job insecurity, work rotation and monumental social insecurity, generally expressed in the systemic and growing loss of social and labour rights by workers the world over.First published in Spanish by the Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la UNAM and Editorial Miguel Ángel de Porrúa as Los rumbos del trabajo. Superexplotación y precariedad social en el siglo XXI, Mexico, 2012.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-10-30
Mått:155 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt:391 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Antal sidor:152
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004300583
Originaltitel:Los rumbos del trabajo. Superexplotacion y precariedad social en el siglo XXI

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Adrián Sotelo Valencia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), is Professor and Researcher of the LatinCentro de Estudios Latinoamericanos at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences UNAM, Mexico. He has published book and many articles on Latin American issues, sociology of work and dependency theory

Innehållsförteckning

List of Tables and FiguresPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPART I – STRUCTURAL CRISIS AND ABSTRACT LABOUR1. Capital-labour as Antipodes?IntroductionThe World of Work: Extinction or Centrality in the Current Day?Why Speak of an Antipode?Why does it Persist in the 21st Century?Conclusions2. The Labour Process and Productive Labour in Contemporary CapitalismIntroductionThe Labour Process (Constant and Variable Capital): a Re-evaluationTheoretical PremisesProductive and Unproductive LabourConclusions3. The Structural Crisis of Capital and Abstract LabourIntroductionAbsolute and Relative Surplus ValueThe Crisis of Relative Surplus Value, the Dismeasure of Value, and the Dismeasure of Labour PowerThe Capitalist Crisis as a Crisis of Value & Surplus ValueConclusionPART II – THE WORLD OF WORK IN THE 21ST CENTURY4. Surplus Value and the Super-exploitation of LabourIntroductionExploitation and the Labour Theory of ValueMarini’s Approach to the Sociology of WorkTwo Patterns of Capital Accumulation: Structural Heterogeneity vs. Technological StandardisationLabour Power: Strategic to the Production of Extraordinary ProfitsThe Precariousness of the World of WorkConclusions5. The New Morphology of CapitalismIntroductionThe Socio-political Significance of Old and New Peripheries in the Global EconomyThe Character of Super-exploitation under Advanced CapitalismThe Hegemonic of Relative Surplus Value in Capitalism and Labour Super-exploitationCritiques & Counter-critiquesSuper-exploitation, Surplus Value and Rates of ProfitExploitation in Advanced CountriesWages and Labour ProductivityNeoliberalism, Austerity and Labour Super-exploitation in Advanced CapitalismConclusionsEpilogue: The Future of WorkReferencesIndex