This blog’s quite neglected recently, not least because I’ve lost some of my interest in the precarity conversations. This piece by Silvia Federici offers criticisms of some of those conversations which I think are worth taking very seriously.
I’d be keen to see the Precarias a la Deriva and folk with a similar outlook respond to Federici.
Two texts off of here.
MayDay for Freedom and Lives - Mondo MayDay for the Precariat 2007 in Tokyo
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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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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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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
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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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.
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"
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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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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