Farewell to Work?

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.

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