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 of new labor relations, in which precariousness, outsourcing and deregulation have become part of the rule, and not the exception. The study presents a thorough analysis of changes in labor relations during the country's recent history, from redemocratization to Jair Bolsonaro's first months in power – including Dilma Rousseff's impeachment and Michel Temer's government. The central axis of the work seeks to understand the explosion of the new service proletariat, which is developing with digital, online and intermittent work. The new edition of the book has an unprecedented topic, which seeks to indicate some causes and elaborate meanings for the victory of the extreme right in the October 2018 elections. Antunes shows how this episode would reveal “the far from strange combination between protected autocracy and neoliberalism exacerbated” of the Bolsonaro government: “It is about complete subjection to the most virulent and destructive imperatives of capital and, consequently, the complete devastation of the social forces of work”.