par Zamora Vargas, Daniel 
;Görtz, Nic
Référence Historical Materialism conference(7-10 novembre 2014: London - SOAS), Making the world working class
Publication Publié, 2013-11-09
;Görtz, Nic Référence Historical Materialism conference(7-10 novembre 2014: London - SOAS), Making the world working class
Publication Publié, 2013-11-09
Abstract de conférence
| Résumé : | All over Europe, what Marx called the “surplus populations” have been the targets of very radical austerity measures. Those reforms, inspired by the German “Hartz” model, concentrated the attacks on the “surplus population” (unemployed, poor people,…) and not on the “stable” wage earners. Indirectly though, those reforms destabilize the whole wage system. One question arises: considering the heavy attacks on the “inactive” population, how can the weak mobilization of trade unions and active fractions of the wage earners be explained? Part of the answer is to be found in the dualization of labor – active vs. inactive – that emerged with the explosion of the unemployment in the 70ties. That evolution profoundly changed the popular vision, studied by Hoggart, that divided the world in two parts: “them” (the bosses) and “us” (the workers). Destructuration of popular environments considerably destabilized this solidarity by creating a “them” (unemployed, poor people,…) below the “us”. This situation is of fundamental importance – theoretically and practically – for the nowadays radical left. Theoretically, it requires to break with the tendency that substituted the “exclusion” issue to the central issue of the capital/labor relationship in the post-war period. Practically, it requires to rethink the forms of unity in order to, in Marx’s words, “organize a regular co-operation between employed and unemployed”. |
