THE FUTURE OF WORK : SUPER-EXPLOITATION AND SOCIAL PRECARIOUSNESS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

As the global capitalist system continues to be plagued by systemic crisis, its deep contradictions buffet the world of work that is bound up with it transformative ways. The old Fordist and Keynesian state order has melted away to be replaced by a minimal, pro-business neoliberal state founded on the Intensive restructuring of economic and productive systems and work organisation. Labour deregulation, flexibility, super-exploitation and social precariousness have increasingly become the normal features of working-class life. In The Future of Work, Sotelo Valencia examines these paradigmatic transition-from social and labour relations based on job security, comprehensive collective agreements and guaranteed social rights, to new social relations that find their technical, political and organisational roots in job insecurity, work rotation and monumental social insecurity-that define our era. First published in Spanish by the Facultad de Ciencias Polìticas y Sociales de la UNAM and Editorial Miguel Ángel de Porrúa as Los rumbos del trabajo. Superxplotación y precariedad social en el siglo XXL Mexico. 2012.