The meanings of work [electronic resource] : essay on the affirmation and negation of work / by Ricardo Antunes ; translated by Elizabeth Molinari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antunes, Ricardo, 1953-

Series:

Historical Materialism Book Series 43.

Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; v. 43

Standardized Title:

Sentidos do trabalho. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor movement--History--20th century.

Labor movement.

Labor movement--History--21st century.

Labor--History--20th century.

Labor.

Labor--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Meanings of Work aims to explore some dimensions of the changes taking place in the labour-world, as well as looking at the consequences, theoretical and empirical, entailed by these transformations, such as the relevance and pertinence of the category of labour in the contemporary world. Billions of men and women depend exclusively on their labour to survive and encounter increasingly unstable, precarious or casual workers and the unemployed. As the contingent of workers has grown, there have been a vast reduction in jobs, rights have been corroded and the gains of the past have been eroded. The Meanings of Work starts with a wider conception of work and seeks to understand this new condition of labour today.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

Chapter One Capital’s Social-Metabolic Order and its System of Mediations

Chapter Two Dimensions of the Structural Crisis of Capital

Chapter Three The Responses of Capital to Its Structural Crisis: Productive Restructuring and Its Repercussions in the Labour-Process

Chapter Four Toyotism and the New Forms of Capital-Accumulation

Chapter Five From Thatcher’s Neoliberalism to Blair’s ‘Third Way’: the Recent British Experience

Chapter Six The Class-that-Lives-from-Labour: the Working Class Today

Chapter Seven The World of Labour and Value-Theory: Forms of Material and Immaterial Labour

Chapter Eight Excursus on the Centrality of Labour: the Debate between Lukács and Habermas

Chapter Nine Elements towards an Ontology of Everyday Life

Chapter Ten Working Time and Free Time: towards a Meaningful Life Inside and Outside of Work

Chapter Eleven Foundations of a New Social-Metabolic Order

Appendices to the Second Edition

Appendices to the First Edition

References

Subject Index

Author Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-85486-4

90-04-23598-1

OCLC:

820154656