No. 8: Jul./Dec. 2022 - The Condition of the Working Class in the Current Crisis of World Capitalism

The Fim do Mundo journal brings to light in its 8th issue the theme: The situation of the Working Class in the current crisis of world capitalism. The working class is experiencing, at the beginning of the 21st century, an unusual situation due to the new forms of exploitation that capital has put into practice, ranging from those called uberization, to the most brutal forms of labor relations, characterized by slavery, in which workers are constrained to work without rights in exchange for precarious housing and food. Precariousness, flexibility, uberization, labor fragmentation, McDonaldization, informalization, etc., all occur alongside high unemployment and vacancy rates, never experienced by the working class, as a global phenomenon that affects all layers of this class. This sudden change in the world situation should promote strong changes in the pattern of exploitation of the working class, as well as its social struggles against capital in all corners of the planet. The purpose of this issue was to discuss the determinants of this process and its opposition by the workers' struggle for their emancipation.