The future of work : super-exploitation and social precariousness in the 21st century / by Adrián Sotelo Valencia ; translated by Amanda Latimer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sotelo Valencia, Adrián, author.

Contributor:

Latimer, Amanda, translator.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 81.

Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 1573-4234 ; Volume 81

Standardized Title:

Rumbos del trabajo. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--History--21st century.

Labor.

Capitalism--History--21st century.

Capitalism.

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book analyses the processes, mutations and trends currently characterising the world of work that are bound up within the deep contradictions of a global capitalist system troubled by systemic crisis, where the old Fordist and Keynesian state order has been substituted by a minimal, pro-business neoliberal State founded on the intensive restructuring of economic and productive systems and work organisation, characterised by labour deregulation, flexibility, super-exploitation and social precariousness. This is a work that illustrates the paradigmatic transition from social and labour relations based on job security, comprehensive collective agreements and guaranteed social rights, towards new social relations that find their technical, political and organizational roots in job insecurity, work rotation and monumental social insecurity, generally expressed in the systemic and growing loss of social and labour rights by workers the world over. First published in Spanish by the Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la UNAM and Editorial Miguel Ángel de Porrúa as Los rumbos del trabajo. Superexplotación y precariedad social en el siglo XXI , Mexico, 2012.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

Capital-labour as Antipodes?

The Labour Process and Productive Labour in Contemporary Capitalism

The Structural Crisis of Capital Abstract Labour

Surplus Value and the Super-exploitation of Labour

The New Morphology of Capitalism

References

Index.

Notes:

"First published in Spanish by the Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociales de la UNAM and Editorial Miguel Angel de Porrua as Los rumbas del trabajo. Superexplotación y precariedad social en el siglo XXI, Mexico, 2012."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-30059-7

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004300590 DOI