Farewell to Work? : : Essays on the World of Work's Metamorphoses and Centrality / / Ricardo Antunes, translated by Murillo van der Laan and others.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series ; Volume 198
• VerfasserIn: Antunes, Ricardo, 1953-
• TeilnehmendeR: Laan, Murillo van der,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series ; Volume 198.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (154 pages)
• Notes: Errata sheets inserted.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9789004466067; 9789004465589
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ricardo Antunes, translated by Murillo van der Laan and others.

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 working class' precariousness, on a global scale. Its main hypothesis is 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 North and South, a substantial process of growing heterogeneity, complexity and fragmentation is observed. This configures a new morphology of the working class. Therefore, at the same time that new mechanisms are created to generate surplus labour, there is, simultaneously, an increment in casualisation and unemployment, pushed by a process of corrosion of labour rights.