{"title":"Ricardo Antunes","description":"\u003cp\u003eRicardo Antunes provides incisive analyses of labour and work in contemporary society, challenging traditional views on employment and its future. His writing delves into the social and economic dynamics affecting workers, making complex issues accessible and thought-provoking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in critical perspectives on labour, social justice, and economic change will find Antunes’ work an essential resource. His contributions to \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e offer valuable insights into the evolving world of work and its wider implications.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"farewell-to-work-by-ricardo-antunes-9781642598018","title":"Farewell to Work?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFarewell to Work?\u003c\/em\u003e presents the large process of capital's productive restructuring, triggered in the 1970s—a process with tendencies to both intellectualise labour power and increase the levels of the working class' precariousness on a global scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book hypothesises that instead of work's loss of centrality in contemporary capitalism, when the world of production is analysed in its global dimension, including countries in the North and South, a substantial process of growing heterogeneity, complexity, and fragmentation is observed. The resulting configuration is a new morphology of the working class.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTherefore, as new mechanisms are created to generate surplus labour, there is, simultaneously, an increment in casualisation and unemployment, pushed by the ongoing corrosion of labour rights in countries all across the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596379930860,"sku":"9781642598018","price":88.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/83734bab146375f2cfd82cac4540205e.jpg?v=1777929691"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/ricardo-antunes.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}