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Global Labour in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

How COVID-19 Accelerated Humanity's Degradation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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In this latest work by the prolific Mexican theorist Adrián Sotelo Valencia, the COVID-19 pandemic is shown to have merely exacerbated the profound world capitalist crisis rooted in the 1970s structural exhaustion of the third industrial revolution. Sotelo explains how the current 4.0 revolution whose articulating axis is the development and expansion of artificial intelligence, Big Data, algorithms, 3D printing, the Internet of Things, and digital platforms constitutes a global strategy of capital and the state aimed at detaining the global capitalist crisis. The Digital Revolution heralds a new international division of labour with severe repercussions for labour, especially in dependent countries like Mexico. The foreword by Andrés Piqueras of the Universidad Jaume I de Castellón underlines the urgency to heed this insightful analysis.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-03-02
Mått155 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt445 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Critical Social Sciences
Antal sidor168
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004532700
ÖversättareDavid Stiles Sparks

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List of Tables, Figures, Graphs and DiagramsForewordIntroductionPart 1Capitalism and the Human Hecatomb1 The Coronavirus Pandemic Demolishes the “End of Work” Fallacy1 Introduction1.1 Debates and the Re-articulation of the World of Work2 Conclusion2 Precarious Labor and the Extension of the Super-Exploitation of Labor1 Introduction1.1 Globalization of the Law of Value and the Super-Exploitation of Labor1.2 The Extension of the Super-Exploitation of Labor Does Not Cancel the Dependency: It Only Redefines It2 ConclusionPart 2Expansion, Crisis, and the Deterioration of Capitalism3 The Crisis of World Capitalism1 Introduction1.1 Coronavirus-Accelerated System Decline1.2 The End of the “Long Expansion” in the United States: The Locomotive Slows Down1.2.1 The Hegemonic Crisis of U.S. Imperialism2 ConclusionPart 3The Sociology of Digitalization: The World of Dehumanized Labor in the Vicissitudes of the Global Hecatomb of Post-Pandemic Capitalism4 The Pandemic Accelerates and Deepens the Crisis of Capitalism and Enriches the Multibillionaires1 Introduction1.1 The World of Work in the Post-pandemic Period1.2 covid-Cide, Precariousness, and Death in Transnational Maquilas in Mexico2 Conclusion5 Remote Work, the Home Office, Digital Platforms, and the Super-Exploitation of Labor1 Introduction1.1 Platform Capitalism1.1.1 Remote Work1.1.2 The Home Office in the Fashion of the House1.1.3 Regulating Remote Work and the Home Office1.2 The Factory of the Future as a Builder of Skills and Talents2 Conclusion6 The Vicissitudes of the Fourth Industrial Revolution1 Introduction1.1 Marx’s Theory of Value and the Fourth Industrial Revolution1.2 Three Industrial Revolutions1.3 The Fourth Industrial Revolution in the Making1.3.1 Revolution 4.0: Variable or Constant Capital?1.3.2 Productive and Unproductive Work in the Fourth Industrial Revolution1.3.3 The Digital Factory and the Law of Value2 ConclusionConclusionBibliographyIndex