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Global Labour in the Fourth Industrial Revolution : How COVID-19 Accelerated Humanity's Degradation /

Valencia, Adrián Sotelo,

Global Labour in the Fourth Industrial Revolution : How COVID-19 Accelerated Humanity's Degradation / Adrián Sotelo Valencia. - 1 online resource - Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2023 Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 242 . - Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2023. Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 242. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


English

9789004532700 9789004532717

10.1163/9789004532717 DOI


Technological innovations--Economic aspects.
Technological innovations--Social aspects.
Technology and civilization.

HC79

338.064