<p>It hardly needs stressing that multiple dimensions pertaining to the world of work are organically intertwined with the nature and functioning of capitalism in its different phases; this paper engages with some of the critical linkages between neoliberal capitalism, which started gaining global ascendancy by the late 1960s–1970s, becoming hegemonic as the macroeconomic policy regime, and major features relating to the landscape pertaining to work across the globe. Although the broad trends relating to outcomes associated with the working people since the 1970s are marked by a degree of unevenness, across regions and countries, the fact of serious adversities is inscribed on almost each one of these. It is well documented that there have been, <i>inter alia</i>, incessant assaults on the working people across the globe, intensification of precarity, and undermining of the trade unions across sectors, during more than seven decades of neoliberalism. Massive acceleration of primitive expropriation mechanisms reflected in heightened extractivism, intensified grabbing of land and other natural resources, ever-increasing reckless profiteering from the planet Earth, and all that surrounds it, among other adverse and pressing challenges have become commonplace. Sure enough, increasing assaults on working people have not gone unchallenged and there have been powerful instances of innovative forms of resistance from working people at large. Without romanticising or exaggerating any of these positives, it is extremely important to take note of such efforts aimed at strengthening alliances and envisioning of new horizons.</p>