Farewell to Work?

Essays on the World of Work's Metamorphoses and Centrality

Ricardo Antunes

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English

Haymarket Books
21 February 2023

Social classes; Sociology: work & labour

Series: Studies in Critical Social Science

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 the working class' precariousness on a global scale. This book hypothesizes 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 the North and South, a substantial process of growing heterogeneity, complexity, and fragmentation is observed. The resulting configuration is a new morphology of the working class. Therefore, as new mechanisms are created to generate surplus labour, there is, simultaneously, an increment in casualisation and unemployment, pushed by the ongoing corrosion of labour rights in countries all across the globe.

By: Ricardo Antunes
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781642598018
ISBN 10: 1642598011
Series: Studies in Critical Social Science
Pages: 134
Publication Date: 21 February 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword Preface to the English edition Acknowledgements List of Tables Introduction part 1 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? 1 First Thesis 2 Second Thesis 3 Third Thesis 4 Fourth Thesis 5 Fifth Thesis part 2 Labour’s New Morphology 5 The Explosion of the New Services Proletariat of the Digital Age 1 The End of the Myth 2 Service Work and Marx’s Fundamental Clues 3 Can Immaterial Labour Generate Surplus Value? 4 Middle Class, Precariat or the New Service Proletariat? 6 Freeze-Dried Flexibility A New Morphology of Labour: Casualisation and Value 1 Introduction 2 Brazil in the New International Division of Labour 3 The New Forms of Labour and Value: Tangibility and Intangibility 4 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 1 An Explosive Book 2 And Its Main Gaps 9 The International Working Class in 1864 and Today 1 Introduction 2 The New Morphology of Labour: Informality, Casualisation, Infoproletariat, and Value 3 Conclusion Master References Index

Ricardo Antunes is a Full Professor of Sociology (University of Campinas) and author of The Meanings of Work and Addio al lavoro?, among other books. He was Visiting Professor at University Ca'Foscari and a Visiting Researcher at University of Sussex.