The future of work: super-exploitation and social precariousness in the 21st century

Adrian Sotelo Valencia, Amanda Latimer (Translator)

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    Abstract

    This book analyses the processes, mutations and trends currently characterising the world of work that are bound up within the deep contradictions of a global capitalist system troubled by systemic crisis, where the old Fordist and Keynesian state order has been substituted by a minimal, pro-business neoliberal State founded on the intensive restructuring of economic and productive systems and work organisation, characterised by labour deregulation, flexibility, superexploitation and social precariousness. This is a work that illustrates the paradigmatic transition from social and labour relations based on job security, comprehensive collective agreements and guaranteed social rights, towards new social relations that find their technical, political and organizational roots in job insecurity, work rotation and monumental social insecurity, generally expressed in the systemic and growing loss of social and labour rights by workers the world over.
    Original languageEnglish
    Place of PublicationLeiden, The Netherlands
    PublisherBrill
    Number of pages152
    ISBN (Print)9789004300583
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2015

    Publication series

    NameStudies in Critical Social Sciences
    PublisherBrill
    Volume81
    ISSN (Print)1573-4234

    Bibliographical note

    Note: First published in Spanish as: Los rumbos del trabajo. Superexplotación y precariedad social del siglo XXI

    Keywords

    • Sociology

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