Farewell to Work? : : Essays on the World of Work's Metamorphoses and Centrality /

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

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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 wor...

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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]
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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Alain Bihr
  • Preface to the English edition
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Part I: 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?
  • First thesis
  • Second thesis
  • Third thesis
  • Fourth thesis
  • Fifth Thesis
  • Part II: Labour's New Morphology
  • 5. The Explosion of the New Services Proletariat of the Digital Age
  • The End of the Myth
  • Service Work and Marx's Fundamental Clues
  • Can Immaterial Labour Generate Surplus Value?
  • Middle Class, Precariat or the New Service Proletariat?
  • 6. Freeze-Dried Flexibility: A New Morphology of Labour: Casualisation and Value
  • Introduction
  • Brazil in the new international division of labour
  • The new forms of labour and value: tangibility and intangibility
  • 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
  • An explosive book
  • And its main gaps
  • 9. The International Working Class in 1864 and Today
  • Introduction
  • The new morphology of labour: informality, casualisation, infoproletariat, and value
  • Conclusion
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX.

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