Future of Work

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

• 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