The Future of Work : Super-Exploitation and Social Precariousness in the 21st Century.

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.

This book offers 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 and monumental social insecurity.

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