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Farewell to Work? - Ricardo Antunes

Farewell to Work?

Essays on the World of Work's Metamorphoses and Centrality

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Buch | Softcover
134 Seiten
2022
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
978-1-64259-801-8 (ISBN)
CHF 43,60 inkl. MwSt
Against the growing consensus that workers no longer matter, Antunes offers a brilliant rebuttal showing their continued centrality in the global economy
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.

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.

Foreword


Preface to the English edition


Acknowledgements


List of Tables


Introduction


part 1

Heterogeneity and Fragmentation of the Working Class

1  Fordism, Toyotism and Flexible Accumulation


2  Metamorphoses in the World of Work


3  Dimensions of the Trade Unionism’s Contemporary Crisis Dilemmas and Challenges


4  Which Crisis of Labour Society?

 1 First Thesis


 2 Second Thesis


 3 Third Thesis


 4 Fourth Thesis


 5 Fifth Thesis




part 2

Labour’s New Morphology

5  The Explosion of the New Services Proletariat of the Digital Age

 1 The End of the Myth


 2 Service Work and Marx’s Fundamental Clues


 3 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 Value

 1 Introduction


 2 Brazil in the New International Division of Labour


 3 The New Forms of Labour and Value: Tangibility and Intangibility


 4 The Design of the New Morphology of Labour




7  The Working Class Today The New Form of Being of the Class-that-lives-from-Labour


8  The Crisis Seen Globally Robert Kurz and the Collapse of Modernization

 1 An Explosive Book


 2 And Its Main Gaps




9  The International Working Class in 1864 and Today

 1 Introduction


 2 The New Morphology of Labour: Informality, Casualisation, Infoproletariat, and Value


 3 Conclusion




Master References


Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Studies in Critical Social Science
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort Chicago
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-64259-801-1 / 1642598011
ISBN-13 978-1-64259-801-8 / 9781642598018
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