Hardt and Negri manifest three tran

Hardt and Negri manifest three transformations of labour in the modern capitalist
production: (class) The current production process is more based on immaterial
factors and goods such as information, knowledge, and social relationships and
includes forms of affective and cognitive labour and service work. (gender) The
capitalist production process tends to become feminine. This includes a greater
amount of women in the wage labour market as well as the fact, that traditional
“women’s work” is becoming increasingly central. (race) An increasing proportion of
both legal and illegal migrants are employed in the process of production around the
world. It also generates ideological conflicts within classes. Furthermore, neoliberal
forces strive to transform common goods such as public industries, public welfare
structure, and public transportation networks as well as natural resources into private
properties. Hence, current capitalist accumulation expropriates and destroys the
common. Hardt and Negri emphasize that not only labour power but the whole social
life is subsumed under capital nowadays. Based on these findings, the authors list
some effects: precarity, flexibility, new regime of time, mobility, poverty of time and
space, control, and surveillance. Altogether, these metamorphoses characterize what
Hardt and Negri call “a biopolitcal turn of the economy”