Two texts off of here.
MayDay for Freedom and Lives - Mondo MayDay for the Precariat 2007 in Tokyo
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May 2, 2007
May Day ‘07
An invisible history of work
http://www.springerin.at/dyn/heft.php?id=50&pos=1&textid=1904&lang=en
An invisible history of work (via)
Interview with Sergio Bologna by Sabine Grimm and Klaus Ronneberger
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February 20, 2007
Why is there no precarity discourse in the United States?
Draft of the talk I gave at the Anomalist roundtable connected to the OSU conference, a revision of this. I may have a more recent version somewhere, if so I’ll post it when I find it.
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more links
to add to the "come back to this when there’s time" file, (accursed work! damnable clock!)
http://www.generation-precaire.org/
http://amormundi.blogspot.com/2007/02/precarity-and-experimental-subjection.html
http://www.stop-precarite.org/
section "France Intern Report" here -
http://www.theworld.org/?q=taxonomy_by_date/1/20070219
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5026941
January 5, 2007
A Different Precarity:
A Different Precarity: Gender and Generational Conflicts in Contemporary Italy
by Laura Fantone
September 15 2006
Introduction
In this decade, especially in the last five years, European social movements have
developed increasingly on the issue of flexibilization of labor. These movements are clearly a response to neo-liberalization and the reduction of welfare and the so–called “social rights” acquired, after intense struggle, by citizens of the industrialized countries during the 20th century (Hobsbawn, Piven and Cloward).
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Euromayday and Freedom of Movement
Euromayday and Freedom of Movement - Statement of Frassanito-Network
Following statement was the outcome of a meeting of the frassanito-network
during the fadaiat-project in tarifa, south of spain, in june 2006
(http://www.fadaiat.net/). The text aims to inspire the debates around Euromayday,
to think beyond the event-level and to keep a strong connection between
Euromayday and migrationrelated networking.
Precarious, Precarization, Precariat?
Precarious, Precarization, Precariat?
The following text is the slightly revised version of a working paper. It was
written and distributed by people from frassanito-network for the euromayday-preparation-meeting in Berlin in January 2005. And this paper is still on the move. As known we emphasize the interconnection between the (migrationrelated) 2nd day of action (2nd of april) and Euromayday. Concerning to that please read this lines as an attempt to establish a common debate around political aims in european space. Contact: frassainfo@kein.org"
December 29, 2006
Whose Precarity Is It Anyway?
Here’s an article for the upcoming issue of Fifth Estate (http://www.fifthestate.org) which will also have stff on class composition, the autonomy of migration, and other autonomous related things.
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December 12, 2006
Precaritization in 1905, and continuity with feudalism
I’ve been reading the record of the IWW founding. Found this, in a pamphlet presented to the convention:
"A minority of the members of society own and control the means of production and distribution, and, as a result, are able to dictate the terms of life to the many. The workers having aspirations above a life in which the conditions are hard and precarious, and in which the life of the toiler is sacrificed without stint that the cupidity of the capitalist may be satisfied, look for something better, and inquire as to the right of him who produces nothing receiving the greater part of the product of the community.
In the struggles of the rising capitalist class with decadent feudalism the worker was told that the master in the shop was his friend and the baron his enemy, and, as a consequence, the toiler fought the battles of his immediate exploiter to a successful issue. This accomplished, it was found that he had but changed one master for another, and that he was more mercilessly exploited under capitalism than had been the case under the old regime."
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November 22, 2006
Food work
I still need to read everything posted here. Aside from that, one avenue of research to pursue on this blog that I’d be keen to pursue is food service/fast food worker organizing. Toward that, a link dump. (Another avenue would be to look at the history of the food industry and the distribution of the labor of reproduction. I think Jameson quips somewhere that fast food is in part a response to the demand for Wages for Housework.)
http://libcom.org/library/interview-with-mcdonalds-workers-resistance
http://libcom.org/sectors/retail-food
http://www.mcspotlight.org/people/witnesses/employment/pearson_phillip.html
http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/press/rollingstone1.html
http://www.weeklydig.com/news_opinions/articles/fast_food_workers_of_the_world_unite
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2006/657/7411
http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/45531/index.php
http://www.iww.org/unions/dept600/iu640/
http://www.iww.org/en/taxonomy/term/38/9?from=15
More stuff: The first is a story about the pizza drivers’ union in Florida and the second is their web site. (I know the FL wobs have some relationship with those cats but I don’t know what it is.) The third is a trot pamphlet about a pizza driver campaign, which is pretty good considering its source.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14955278/
http://www.aupdd.org/Home.asp
http://socialistalternative.org/publications/fastfood/contents.html