Labour in Contemporary Capitalism: What Next?
by Ursula Huws (Author)

About the Author
Ursula Huws is Professor of Labour and Globalisation at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.

About this book
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.  

Brief contents
1 Introduction 1
2 Labour In and Out of Capitalism 15
3 The Dynamics of Capitalist Development 33
4 Combination, Inclusion and Exclusion: Contradictory Forces in Worker Organisation Under Capitalism 47
5 Creative Work Under Capitalism 79
6 Commodification of Public Services 107
7 Commodification of Housework 121
8 What Next? 141
Bibliography 167
Index 185

Series: Dynamics of Virtual Work
Pages: 188 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2019 edition (May 5, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 113752040X
ISBN-13: 978-1137520401