Global Labour in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

How Covid-19 Accelerated Humanity's Degradation
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53270-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 242, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

In this latest work by the prolific Mexican theorist Adrián Sotelo Valencia, the COVID-19 pandemic is shown to have merely exacerbated the profound world capitalist crisis rooted in the 1970s structural exhaustion of the third industrial revolution. Sotelo explains how the current 4.0 revolution whose articulating axis is the development and expansion of artificial intelligence, Big Data, algorithms, 3D printing, the Internet of Things, and digital platforms constitutes a global strategy of capital and the state aimed at detaining the global capitalist crisis. The Digital Revolution heralds a new international division of labour with severe repercussions for labour, especially in dependent countries like Mexico. The foreword by Andrés Piqueras of the Universidad Jaume I de Castellón underlines the urgency to heed this insightful analysis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sotelo Valencia, Adrián

Weitere Mitwirkende

Stiles Sparks, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Adrián Sotelo Valencia is professor and researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the UNAM in Mexico City. He is author of numerous works on labor, capitalist crisis, and development, including United States in a World in Crisis (Brill, 2020), Sub-Imperalism Revisited (Brill, 2017) and The Future of Work (Brill, 2015).