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In this wide-ranging analysis of the processes, mutations and trends currently characterizing the world of work, Adrin Sotelo V. offers important new insights into the ways these changes are bound up within the deep contradictions of a global capitalist system plagued by systemic crisis, and roots the paradigmatic shifts in social and labor relations in Neoliberalism's pro-business policies.

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Author:   Adrian Sotelo Valencia
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
Volume:   81
ISBN:  

9781608467105

ISBN 10:   1608467104
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   20 February 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Tables and Figures Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I – 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 an Antipode? Why does it Persist in the 21st Century? Conclusions 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 Conclusions 3. The Structural Crisis of Capital and Abstract Labour Introduction Absolute and Relative Surplus Value The Crisis of Relative Surplus Value, the Dismeasure of Value, and the Dismeasure of Labour Power The Capitalist Crisis as a Crisis of Value & Surplus Value Conclusion PART II – 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 Conclusions 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 Hegemonic of Relative Surplus Value in Capitalism and Labour Super-exploitation Critiques & 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 Conclusions Epilogue: The Future of Work References Index

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Adrin Sotelo Valencia, Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mexico (UNAM), is Professor and Researcher of the LatinCentro de Estudios Latinoamericanos at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences UNAM, Mexico. He has published book and many articles on Latin American issues, sociology of work and dependency theory.

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