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

Antunes, Ricardo/ van der Laan, Murillo (Translator)

ISBN 10: 9004733752 / ISBN 13: 9789004733756

Published by Brill Academic Pub, 2025

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328 pages. 9.26x6.11x9.25 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Privilege of Servitude: The New Service Proletariat in the Digital Age
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004733752
• ISBN 13: 9789004733756
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.63 kilograms

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Synopsis

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 rise of the new service proletariat and contemporary forms of digital labour, while also exploring changes in labour relations globally―with a particular focus on Brazil’s recent history, from the period of redemocratisation to the Bolsonaro years.

About the Author

Ricardo Antunes is a Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Campinas and the author of The Meanings of Work (Brill, 2013) and Farewell to Work? (Brill, 2021), among other books. He has been a Visiting Professor at Ca’ Foscari University and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Sussex.