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Debt and the Future of Workers : Financialization As Exploitation in the 21st Century.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gouzoulis, Giorgos.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial relations.
- Financialization.
- Exploitation.
- Debt.
- industrial relations.
- Exploitation--Economic aspects.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (199 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Since the late 1970s, student, mortgage, and medical debt have continued to rise in line with lowered public spending and the privatization of key services by Western governments.Gouzoulis shows how working households beholden to these economic burdens are prevented from demanding better working conditions and pay.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- DEBT AND THE FUTURE OF WORKERS: Financialization as Exploitation in the 21st Century
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- One Introduction
- Two Beyond the Future of Work
- Monopoly capital, work degradation, and the labour process
- The globalization of trade and production networks
- Mainstreaming Braverman? Automation, platforms, and the future of work
- Work degradation and the financialization of the corporation
- The future of work through the future of workers
- Three The Indebted (Working) Class
- Goodbye Lenin! The decline of the post-war welfare state
- Living beyond our means? The rise of the 'consumerism' narrative
- It's financial literacy, stupid!
- Work and the financialization of workers' everyday life
- Controlling work and workers through debt
- Four Trade Unions in the Era of Financialization
- The economics and politics of unionization
- Unionism under globalization and domestic structural shifts
- How financialization undermines unions
- Life without unions
- Five The Debt-Forced Silencing of Strikes
- Macroeconomic conditions, union power, and strike activity
- Strike activity in the era of globalization, austerity, and services
- How personal debt suppresses strikes
- Indebted into silence
- Six Debt and Despair at Work
- The indebted reserve army of labour
- Pay degradation and the decline of labour's share of national income
- Degraded but unequal: wage inequalities under financialization
- Indebted, precarious, and divided
- Seven Organize, Resist, Abolish: Democratizing Finance and Work
- Notes
- one Introduction
- two Beyond the Future of Work
- three The Indebted (Working) Class
- four Trade Unions in the Era of Financialization
- five The Debt-Forced Silencing of Strikes
- six Debt and Despair at Work.
- seven Organize, Resist, Abolish: Democratizing Finance and Work
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-4192-8
- 9781529241921
- OCLC:
- 1581200783
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