Farewell to work? : essays on the world of work's metamorphoses and centrality / by Ricardo Antunes ; translated by Murillo van der Laan and others.
| Author/creator |
Antunes, Ricardo, 1953- |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] |
| Description | xvi, 136 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subject(s) |
Click here for more information about this title
| Uniform title | Adeus ao trabalho? English |
| Series | Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234 ; vol.198 |
| Abstract | "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 of work's loss of centrality in contemporary capitalism, when the world of production is analysed in its global dimension, including countries in North and South, a substantial process of growing heterogeneity, complexity and fragmentation is observed. This configures a new morphology of the working class. Therefore, at the same time that new mechanisms are created to generate surplus labour, there is, simultaneously, an increment in casualisation and unemployment, pushed by a process of corrosion of labour rights"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-133) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021045761 |
| ISBN | 9789004465589 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |