The Privilege of Servitude the New Service Proletariat In the Digital Age - by Ricardo Antunes

The new edition of The Privilege of Servitude, by sociologist and professor Ricardo Antunes, presents a detailed and updated portrait of the working class today, with the main trends in new labor relations, in which precariousness, outsourcing, and deregulation have become part of the rule, not the exception.. The study presents a thorough analysis of the changes in labor relations during the country's recent history, from redemocratization to the first months of Jair Bolsonaro in power – passing through the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and the government of Michel Temer. The central axis of the work seeks to understand the explosion of the new service proletariat, which develops with digital, online, and intermittent work.. The new edition of the book features an unprecedented topic, which seeks to indicate some causes and elaborate meanings for the victory of the far right in the October 2018 elections. Antunes shows how this episode would reveal “the not at all bizarre combination between tutelary autocracy and exacerbated neoliberalism” of the Bolsonaro government: “It is about complete subjection to the most virulent and destructive imperatives of capital and, consequently, the integral devastation of the social forces of labor”.