Labour In Contemporary Capitalism

Author : Ursula Huws
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137520425

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Labour in Contemporary Capitalism by Ursula Huws Pdf

In this long-awaited book, Ursula Huws brings together the results of decades of prescient research on labour market transformation to provide an authoritative overview of the impacts of technological, economic, social and political change on working life in the 21st century. Placing current upheavals in global labour markets firmly in their historical context, she debunks myths about the impacts of artificial intelligence on labour, pointing to the processes whereby new employment is created, as well as old jobs destroyed, while never underestimating the contradictory impacts of digitalisation on work organisation, resistance, adaption and innovation. This book is underpinned by a clear conceptual framework, that analyses the dynamics of the restructuring of capitalism and labour, taking full account of unpaid social reproductive work, and integrating a feminist analysis whilst also pointing to new forms of commodification that will shape the future. Labour in Contemporary Capitalism will be an invaluable resource and point of reference for students and scholars studying the sociology of labour, economic structures, technology, and globalisation.

Author : Alfredo Saad Filho
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004393202

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Value and Crisis: Essays on Labour, Money and Contemporary Capitalism by Alfredo Saad Filho Pdf

Value and Crisis brings together selected essays written by Alfredo Saad-Filho. This book examines the labour theory of value and its implications for the nature of neoliberalism, financialisation, inflation, monetary policy, and the crises of contemporary capitalism.

Author : Haidar, Julieta,Keune, Maarten
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781802205138

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Work and Labour Relations in Global Platform Capitalism by Haidar, Julieta,Keune, Maarten Pdf

This engaging and timely book provides an in-depth analysis of work and labour relations within global platform capitalism with a specific focus on digital platforms that organise labour processes, known as labour platforms. Well-respected contributors thoroughly examine both online and offline platforms, their distinct differences and the important roles they play for both large transnational companies and those with a smaller global reach.

Author : Baris Karaagac
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783643904119

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Accumulations, Crises, Struggles by Baris Karaagac Pdf

This book is about the most recent phase or stage of capitalist development: neoliberal globalization. Neoliberalism, as much a political project as an economic one, is still pervasive, and it continues to provide the general framework for politics and political imagination across most of the globe. The book brings together a group of scholars from different parts of the world looking at the impact of neoliberalism on societies. And, as such, it contributes as much to the critique and overcoming of this process as to its analysis. With its extensive coverage, both geographically and thematically, the book will be of interest for students of the social sciences, as well as for anyone making an effort to understand and change the world. (Series: Politics, Society, and Community in a Globalizing World - Vol. 15)

Author : André Gorz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Division of labor
ISBN : UCSC:32106000884434

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The Division of Labour by André Gorz Pdf

Author : Jens Arnholtz,Bjarke Refslund
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781040030219

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Workers, Power and Society by Jens Arnholtz,Bjarke Refslund Pdf

The book addresses how power and power resources remain important analytically as well as empirically dimensions for analysing contemporary capitalism. It provides a theoretical framework for studying, understanding, and explaining changes in the world of work and how that leads to changes in contemporary capitalist societies. Changes in the world of work are closely related to increasing inequality, growing social unrest, and societal polarisation. Hence the book seeks to deepen our understanding of how developments in the sphere of work have implication far beyond the direct impact on workers. The book focuses on how workers and unions utilise their various power resources to off-set the power advantage of employers and capital in the sphere of labour politics, which have crucial linkages with both cultural life, politics, and the market. Although workers’ and unions’ power and influence have been declining almost universally across the world, the argument in the book is that they still hold power resources that can challenge and sometimes alter outcomes in another direction than what employers and capital wants. Hence the theory can help understand the possibilities that workers and unions still have and how these resources affect the outcomes of the labour-capital struggle. A core contribution of the book is that it develops theoretical propositions about power resource theory, provides clear definitions of the core concepts as well as apply the power resource theory to a range of new or emerging topic fields like global value chains, minimum wages, and migrant workers.

Author : Phoebe V. Moore,Martin Upchurch,Xanthe Whittaker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319582320

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Humans and Machines at Work by Phoebe V. Moore,Martin Upchurch,Xanthe Whittaker Pdf

This edited collection provides a series of accounts of workers’ local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work’s digitalisation. Precarious gig economy workers ride bikes and drive taxis in China and Britain; call centre workers in India experience invasive tracking; warehouse workers discover that hidden data has been used for layoffs; and academic researchers see their labour obscured by a ‘data foam’ that does not benefit them. These cases are couched in historical accounts of identity and selfhood experiments seen in the Hawthorne experiments and the lineage of automation. This book will appeal to scholars in the Sociology of Work and Digital Labour Studies and anyone interested in learning about monitoring and surveillance, automation, the gig economy and the quantified self in the workplace.

Author : John Strachey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4149347

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Contemporary Capitalism by John Strachey Pdf

Changing structure of society as a result of democratic political action, advancement of technical processes and increase in productivity.

Author : Jacques Gouverneur
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0389204161

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Contemporary Capitalism and Marxist Economics by Jacques Gouverneur Pdf

Author : Andrea Fumagalli,Alfonso Giuliani,Stefano Lucarelli,Carlo Vercellone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317225669

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Cognitive Capitalism, Welfare and Labour by Andrea Fumagalli,Alfonso Giuliani,Stefano Lucarelli,Carlo Vercellone Pdf

This book deals with the transformations of both accumulation process and labour in the transition from a Fordist to a cognitive capitalism paradigm, with specific regard to Western economies. It outlines the advent, after industrial capitalism, of a new phase of the capitalist system in which the value of cognitive labour becomes dominant. In this framework, the central stakes of capital valorisation and forms of property are directly based on the control and privatization of the production of collective knowledge. Here, the transformation of knowledge itself, into a commodity or a fictitious capital, is analyzed. Building on this foundation, the authors outline their concept of "commonfare." This idea of commonfare implies, as a prerequisite, the social re-appropriation of the gains arising from the exploitation of those social relations which are the basis of accumulation today. This re-appropriation does not necessarily lead to the transition from private to public ownership but it does make it necessary to distinguish between common goods and the commonwealth. This book explains this distinction and how common goods and the commonwealth require a different framework of analysis. This volume will be of great interest to all scholars and researchers, as well as a more general readership, who wish to develop a critical thinking of the mainstream analysis of this topic. Contributing to the "Marxism-heterodox" approach using rigorous theoretical analysis and empirical evidence, it is aimed at all those who act socially and aspire to a better understanding of the development and the contradictions of contemporary capitalism.

Author : André Gorz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:471699468

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The Division of Labour by André Gorz Pdf

Author : Chris Hann,Jonathan Parry
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785336799

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Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism by Chris Hann,Jonathan Parry Pdf

Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much to state policies and is reflected in local understandings of class. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new ‘commonsense’ of our times and suggest various propositions about the conditions that create employment regimes based on flexible labor.

Author : J. Rogers Hollingsworth,Robert Boyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521658063

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Contemporary Capitalism by J. Rogers Hollingsworth,Robert Boyer Pdf

This book argues that there is no single best institutional arrangement for organizing modern societies. Therefore, the market should not be considered the ideal and universal arrangement for coordinating economic activity. Instead, the editors argue, the economic institutions of capitalism exhibit a large variety of objectives and tools that complement each other and can not work in isolation. The various chapters of the book ask what logics and functions institutions follow and why they emerge, mature and persist in the forms they do.

Author : Alfredo Saad Filho
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134566976

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The Value of Marx by Alfredo Saad Filho Pdf

This book constitutes an overview of recent developments in political economy in general, and Marxist value theory in particular. The implications of value theory for bank credit, inflation and deflation are fully explored.

Author : V. Upadhyay,Paramjit Singh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000483703

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Global Political Economy by V. Upadhyay,Paramjit Singh Pdf

The present volume makes students and researchers familiar with contemporary issues in global political economy with a focus on the working of global capitalism in the last four to five decades. The volume covers a wide range of issues from conceptual questions to empirical investigation with the aim to promote a critical understanding of the major challenges posed by contemporary capitalism. It contains contributions of leading political economists from India and abroad. The volume will be a significant resource for developing a graduate course in global political economy. This book is co-published with Aakar Books, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the print versions of this book in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.