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Author Sotelo Valencia, Adrián, author.

Title The future of work : super-exploitation and social precariousness in the 21st century / by Adrian Sotelo Valencia ; translated by Amanda Latimer.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234 ; volume 81
Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 81.
Note "First published in Spanish by the Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociales de la UNAM and Editorial Miguel Angel de Porrua as Los rumbas del trabajo. Superexplotación y precariedad social en el siglo XXI, Mexico, 2012."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro -- The Future of Work: Super-exploitation and Social Precariousness in the 21st Century -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Structural Crisis and Abstract Labour -- 1: Capital-labour as Antipodes? -- Introduction -- The World of Work: Extinction or Centrality in the Current Day? -- Why Speak of Antipodes? -- Why does It Persist in the 21st Century? -- Conclusion -- 2: The Labour Process and Productive Labour in Contemporary Capitalism -- Introduction -- The Labour Process (Constant and Variable Capital): A Re-evaluation -- Theoretical Premises -- Productive and Unproductive Labour -- Conclusion -- 3: The Structural Crisis of Capital Abstract Labour -- Introduction -- Absolute and Relative Surplus Value -- The Crisis of Relative Surplus Value, the Dismeasure of Value, and the Devalorisation of Labour Power -- The Capitalist Crisis as a Crisis of Value and Surplus Value -- Conclusion -- Part 2: The World of Work in the 21st Century -- 4: Surplus Value and the Super-exploitation of Labour -- Introduction -- Exploitation and the Labour Theory of Value -- Marini's Approach to the Sociology of Work -- Two Patterns of Capital Accumulation: Structural Heterogeneity vs. Technological Standardisation -- Labour Power: Strategic to the Production of Extraordinary Profits -- The Precariousness of the World of Work -- Conclusion -- 5: The New Morphology of Capitalism -- Introduction -- The Socio-political Significance of Old and New Peripheries in the Global Economy -- The Character of Super-exploitation under Advanced Capitalism -- The Hegemony of Relative Surplus Value in Capitalism and Labour Super-exploitation -- Critiques and Counter-critiques -- Super-exploitation, Surplus Value and Rates of Profit -- Exploitation in Advanced Countries.
Wages and Labour Productivity -- Neoliberalism, Austerity and Labour Super-exploitation in Advanced Capitalism -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: The Future of Work -- References -- Index.
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Subject Labor -- History -- 21st century.
Labor.
History.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Capitalism -- History -- 21st century.
Capitalism.
Economics.
Economics.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Rumbos del trabajo. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015054996
Other Form: Print version: Sotelo Valencia, Adrián. Rumbos del trabajo. English. Future of work 9789004300583 (DLC) 2015032418 (OCoLC)918591070
ISBN 9789004300590 (electronic book)
9004300597 (electronic book)
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