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

by Adri?n Sotelo Valencia (Author)

In this latest work by the prolific Mexican theorist Adri?n 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 delaying 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 Andr?s Piqueras of the Universidad Jaume I de Castell?n underlines the urgency to heed this insightful analysis.

Author Biography

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, Sub-Imperalism Revisited and The Future of Work.