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