The Privilege of Servitude: The New Service Proletariat in the Digital Age, written by Ricardo Antunes

Ricardo Antunes is an author who is still relatively unknown in the European mainstream sociological scene, despite the importance of his works.The Priviledge of Servitude. The New Service Proletariat in the Digital Age has just been published in English by Brill, in 2025. Considered by some to be one of the greatest experts of Marx’s work in Latin America; he may be defined, more appropriately, as the “lucid narrator” of the “cataclysm” that has swept through labour and, specifically, wage labour, during the era of (neo)liberal globalisation of capitalist social relations. This article will review his book, The Priviledge of Servitude: The New Service Proletariat in the Digital Age, which has just been published in English by Brill, in 2025.