Global labour in the fourth industrial revolution : : how covid-19 accelerated humanity's degradation / / Adrian Sotelo Valencia ; foreword by Andres Piqueras ; translated by David Stiles Sparks.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences
• VerfasserIn: Sotelo Valencia, Adrián,
• TeilnehmendeR: Stiles Sparks, David,; Piqueras Infante, Andrés,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2023]
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 pages)

"In this latest work by the prolific Mexican theorist Adrián Sotelo Valencia, the COVID-19 pandemic is shown to have merely exacerbated the profound world capitalist crisis rooted in the 1970s structural exhaustion of the third industrial revolution. Sotelo explains how the current 4.0 revolution whose articulating axis is the development and expansion of artificial intelligence, Big Data, algorithms, 3D printing, the Internet of Things, and digital platforms constitutes a global strategy of capital and the state aimed at detaining the global capitalist crisis. The Digital Revolution heralds a new international division of labour with severe repercussions for labour, especially in dependent countries like Mexico. The foreword by Andrés Piqueras of the Universidad Jaume I de Castellón underlines the urgency to heed this insightful analysis"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Tables, Graphs, Diagrams and Figures -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1 Capitalism and the Human Hecatomb -- Chapter 1 The Coronavirus Pandemic Demolishes the "End of Work" Fallacy -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Debates and the Re-articulation of the World of Work -- 2 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Labor Precariousness and Extension of the Super-Exploitation of Labor -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Globalization of the Law of Value and the Super-Exploitation of Labor -- 1.2 The Extension of the Super-Exploitation of Labor Does Not Cancel the Dependency: It Only Redefines It -- 2 Conclusion -- Part 2 Expansion, Crisis, and the Deterioration of Capitalism -- Chapter 3 The Crisis of World Capitalism -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Coronavirus-Accelerated System Decline -- 1.2 The End of the "Long Expansion" in the United States: The Locomotive Slows Down -- 1.2.1 The Hegemonic Crisis of U.S. Imperialism -- 2 Conclusion -- Part 3 The Sociology of Digitalization: The World of Dehumanized Labor in the Vicissitudes of the Global Hecatomb of Post-pandemic Capitalism -- Chapter 4 The Pandemic Accelerates and Deepens the Crisis of Capitalism and Enriches the Multibillionaires -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The World of Work in the Post-pandemic Period -- 1.2 COVID-Cide, Precariousness, and Death in Transnational Maquilas in Mexico -- 2 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Teleworking, Home Office, Digital Platforms and Super-Exploitation of Labor -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Platform Capitalism -- 1.1.1 Remote Work -- 1.1.2 The Home Office in the Fashion of the House -- 1.1.3 Regulating Remote Work and the Home Office -- 1.2 The Factory of the Future as a Builder of Skills and Talents -- 2 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Vicissitudes of the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- 1 Introduction.

1.1 Marx's Theory of Value and the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- 1.2 Three Industrial Revolutions -- 1.3 The Fourth Industrial Revolution in the Making -- 1.3.1 Revolution 4.0: Variable or Constant Capital? -- 1.3.2 Productive and Unproductive Work in the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- 1.3.3 The Digital Factory and the Law of Value -- 2 Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Other Sources Consulted -- Index -- Back Cover.