Farewell to work? : essays on the world of work's metamorphoses and centrality /
"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...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English Portuguese |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2022]
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Series: | Studies in critical social sciences ;
v. 198. |
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
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.