Privilege of Servitude

The New Service Proletariat in the Digital Age

AvRicardo Antunes

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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The Privilege of Servitude presents a detailed and up-to-date portrait of today’s working class. Ricardo Antunes examines the main trends in new labor relations, where precariousness, outsourcing, and deregulation have become the rule rather than the exception. He offers an in-depth analysis of the rise of the new service proletariat and contemporary forms of digital labor, while also exploring changes in labor relations globally—with a particular focus on Brazil’s recent history, from the period of redemocratization to the Bolsonaro years.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-25
Mått:152 x 228 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:309
Förlag:Haymarket Books
ISBN:9798888908938
Översättare:Laan, Murillo van der, Laan, Murillo Van Der

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Ricardo Antunes is a Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Campinas and the author of The Meanings of Work (2013) and Farewell to Work? (2021), among other books. He has been a Visiting Professor at Ca’ Foscari University and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Sussex.

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Preface to the English Edition Acknowledgements A Preliminary NotePart 1 Between Corrosion and Rubble: The Emergence of the Digital-Age Proletariat1 Photographs of Precarious Global Labour 2 The Explosion of the New Service Proletariat 3 Infoproletariat, Informality, (Im)materiality and Value: The New Global Proletariat and Its Main Tendencies 4 Labour and (De)value in Platform Capitalism: Three Theses on the New Age of the Disanthropomorphisation of Labour 5 Workers’ Subjectivity, and Innocent and Estranged Reifications 6 Uno or Omni Work: The Dialectic Between Concrete and Abstract LabourPart 2 The Devastation of Labour Reaches Brazil (Precarisation, Outsourcing and the Crisis of Trade Unionism)7 The New Morphology of the Working Class in Contemporary Brazil: Workers in Industry, Agribusiness and Services 8 The Society of Work-Related Illnesses 9 Precariousness of Labour as a Rule 10 The Society of Total Outsourcing 11 Where has the New Trade Unionism Gone? Directions and Misdirections of a Trade Union Practice 12 From Confrontational Unionism to Bargaining UnionismPart 3 The Age of Conciliations, Rebellions and Counter-Revolutions13 Two Notes about Two Routes of Social Liberalism 14 The Phenomenology of the Brazilian Crisis 15 The June 2013 Rebellions 16 The Age of Rebellions, Counter-Revolutions, and the New State of Exception 17 The (De)construction of Labour in Twenty-First Century Brazil 18 The Devastation of Labour in the Preventive Counter-Revolution: the Destructive Affinities between Temer and BolsonaroPart 4 Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel?19 Is There a Future for Trade Unions? 20 Is there a Future for Socialism? Towards a New Way of Life in Latin America Appendix: Original Sources of the Chapters Bibliography