The Privilege of Servitude : The New Service Proletariat in the Digital Age /

The Privilege of Servitude : The New Service Proletariat in the Digital Age /

The Privilege of Servitude presents a detailed and up-to-date portrait of today's working class. Antunes examines the main trends in new labour relations, where precariousness, outsourcing, and deregulation have become the rule rather than the exception. He offers an in-depth analysis of the ri...

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Main Author: Antunes, Ricardo (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Historical Materialism Book Series ; 358.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Subjects:

American Studies.
Critical Social Sciences.
Economics & Political Science.
Social Sciences.
Sociology & Anthropology.
Latin America.

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Call Number: BL245

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the English Edition
  • Acknowledgements
  • A Preliminary Note
  • Part 1 Between Corrosion and Rubble: The Emergence of the Digital-Age Proletariat
  • 1 Photographs of Precarious Global Labour
  • 2 The Explosion of the New Service Proletariat
  • 3 Infoproletariat, Informality, (Im)materiality and Value: The New Global Proletariat and Its Main Tendencies
  • 4 Labour and (De)value in Platform Capitalism: Three Theses on the New Age of the Disanthropomorphisation of Labour
  • 5 Workers' Subjectivity, and Innocent and Estranged Reifications
  • 6 Uno or Omni Work: The Dialectic Between Concrete and Abstract Labour
  • Part 2 The Devastation of Labour Reaches Brazil (Precarisation, Outsourcing and the Crisis of Trade Unionism)
  • 7 The New Morphology of the Working Class in Contemporary Brazil: Workers in Industry, Agribusiness and Services
  • 8 The Society of Work-Related Illnesses
  • 9 Precariousness of Labour as a Rule
  • 10 The Society of Total Outsourcing
  • 11 Where has the New Trade Unionism Gone? Directions and Misdirections of a Trade Union Practice
  • 12 From Confrontational Unionism to Bargaining Unionism
  • Part 3 The Age of Conciliations, Rebellions and Counter-Revolutions
  • 13 Two Notes about Two Routes of Social Liberalism
  • 14 The Phenomenology of the Brazilian Crisis
  • 15 The June 2013 Rebellions
  • 16 The Age of Rebellions, Counter-Revolutions, and the New State of Exception
  • 17 The (De)construction of Labour in Twenty-First Century Brazil
  • 18 The Devastation of Labour in the Preventive Counter-Revolution: the Destructive Affinities between Temer and Bolsonaro
  • Part 4 Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel?
  • 19 Is There a Future for Trade Unions?
  • 20 Is there a Future for Socialism? Towards a New Way of Life in Latin America
  • Appendix: Original Sources of the Chapters
  • Bibliography.