Book Review Essay: On the Future of Workers and the Lack of Effective Political Solutions

Castells M (1996) The Rise of the Network Society, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Volume 1. Oxford: Blackwell.

Couldry N Mejias U (2019) The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press.

Hardt M Negri A (2000) Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Hardt M Negri A (2004) Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. New York, NY: Penguin.

Hardt M Negri A (2017) Assembly. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Harvey D (1982) The Limits to Capital. Oxford: Blackwell.

Laskurain-Iturbe I Arana-Landín G Landeta-Manzano B , et al. (2021) Exploring the influence of industry 4.0 technologies on the circular economy. Journal of Cleaner Production 321: 128944.

Schwab K (2016) The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Geneva: World Economic Forum.

Sharp T (2019) Insecure work: Why the new PM must put decent work at the top of this to-do list. TUC. Available at: https://www.tuc.org.uk/research-analysis/reports/insecure-work (accessed 1 September 2025).

Standing G (2011) The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. London: Bloomsbury Academic.