Fascism, from Fordism to Trumpism
Fascism is as American as Henry Ford. And Donald Trump.
The abolition and limitation of (which and whose) work?
I had sat down to do a post on automation and the abolition/limit of work-time, but given the level of some of the discussion I’ve seen, that seems to require some preliminaries and backgrounding, so aside from these remarks below, there’s another post on the concept of ‘socially-necessary labour’ here. There’s been some renewed discussion…
Waged work, service work and ‘socially necessary labour’
The wage contract is not identical or commensurate in the sense that the labour it ‘represents’ is or can be identical to the exchange it governs.
Zero-hour for Fordist union strategies
Zero-hour contracts have been in the news quite a bit lately. Here are some recent links:
Proliferating Limits: Capitalist Dynamics, Oikonomia and Border Technologies
Implicit or not, there persists a view of capitalism in which the border is understood as extraneous to the inherent tendencies of capital. In this, capital and the state are regarded as distinctive logics, the first inclined to overtake limits, the second emphasising limit as such. […]
Uncanny Robots and Affective Labour in the Oikonomia
Full text from Cultural Studies Review, volume 18 number 1 March 2012, pp.153–73.
Oikopolitics, and Storms
Full text, The Global South, Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2009, pp. 66-82.
Precari-Us?
Full text, Mute, n.29, 2005. Republished at RepublicArt, March 2005. In German as “Prekär – Wir ?” In Greek as Εμείς επισφαλείς;.
Discipline and Labour: Sociology, Class Formation and Money in Australia at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
History of Australian sociology (pdf link)
Invisible Hands and Iron Fists: Fear, Progress and Work and the End of the 20th Century
Over the last fifteen years in Australia, the workplace has been thoroughly and miserably transformed. With the biggest growth in employment recorded in casual and part-time work, with the proportion of those working over sixty hours a week registgering the most dramatic increase relative to other hours worked amongst full-time workers, the eight-hour day no…
