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An invisible history of work (via)
Interview with Sergio Bologna by Sabine Grimm and Klaus Ronneberger
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May 2, 2007
An invisible history of work
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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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"
August 12, 2006
Precarity: A Savage Journey to the Heart of Embodied Capitalism
PRECARITY: A SAVAGE JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF EMBODIED CAPITALISM
Vassilis Tsianos [University of Hamburg] and Dimitris Papadopoulos [Cardiff University]
A. Introduction
There is an underlying assumption to the current debates about class composition in post-Fordism: this is the assumption that immaterial work and its corresponding social subjects form the centre of gravity in the new turbulent cycles of struggles around living labour. This paper explores the theoretical and political implications of this assumption, its promises and closures. Is immaterial labour the condition out of which a radical socio-political transformation of contemporary post-Fordist capitalism can emerge? Who’s afraid of immaterial workers today? (more…)
August 5, 2006
Lost In Translation
"Lost in Translation: Precarious employment and its challenge to trade unions" by Carla Lipsig-Mummé
July 28, 2006
An antibushist future for Europe: DEMORADICAL VS DEMOLIBERAL REGULATION
I like some of this and disagree with some of it strongly. I’ll be commenting on it soon-ish, I need time for non-blogdimensional pursuits as well as some research for my respone.
An antibushist future for Europe: DEMORADICAL VS DEMOLIBERAL REGULATION
By Alex Foti
The answer to the party form conundrum seemed, for a while, to lie in the network. Now it looks like the network is being shoe-horned back into the party form. Here Alex Foti, former organiser of the ChainWorkers, advocates a pink, green and wobbly extension of the mayday network into a card-carrying transeuropean syndicate whose methods are majoritarian and vote-based and whose target is the production of a radical constitution for the EU formulated from below. Seems like the idea of a socialist supra-national state has never been so popular.
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My initial understanding of precarity
I understand precarity to be a matter of the working class, defined as all those who sell their labor power as a commodity, with the important note that ’sell’ does not limit the working class to those who earn wages but includes nonmonetary or nonwage transaction in exchanges for means of meeting needs as well.
(more…)July 27, 2006
Archive: s0metim3s
There’s a lot of great stuff here to revisit and consider.
Chris Carlsson interviews Alex Foti
Alex Foti interview, by Chris Carlsson
On my recent trip to Milan for Mayday I got to meet Alex Foti over lunch. We decided to conduct an interview by email and here it is. Foti is the author of a manifesto I quoted at length in an early blog post, regardind the politics of Precarity and the so-called ‘cognitariat’ in Italy and Europe. We continue the discussion here…
(more…)Precarity and n/european Identity: an interview with Alex Foti
Precarity and n/european Identity: an interview with Alex Foti (Chainworkers)
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This interview took place in July 2004 at the Mill Squat in Amsterdam, during the period it was liberated from the destiny of selling ‘traditional’ Dutch parephenalia to tourists. Merijn Oudenampsen and Gavin Sullivan from the Greenpepper magazine spoke with Milano-based organiser Alex Foti - formerly of the Italian flexwork syndicate ChainWorkers (www.chainworkers.org) - about precarity, european labour conflict, and the spread of new syndicalist modes of subvertised collective action across Neuropa.
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