Cover illustration: Adeus ao Trabalho? (Farewell to Work?) by Ricardo Rezende, especially for the English edition of Adeus ao Trabalho. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Antunes, Ricardo, 1953- author.
Title: Farewell to work? : essays on the world of work’s metamorphoses and centrality / by Ricardo Antunes ; translated by Murillo van der Laan and others.
Other titles: Adeus ao trabalho? English
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] | Series: Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234 ; vol. 198 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “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.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021045761 (print) | LCCN 2021045762 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004465589 (hardback ; alk. paper) | ISBN 9789004466067 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Labor. | Working class. | Labor movement.
Classification: LCC HD4904 .A57613 2021 (print) | LCC HD4904 (ebook) | DDC 331.01–dc23
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ISSN 1573-4234
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