Farewell to the Working Class: An Essay on Post-industrial SocialismAndré Gorz argues that changes in the role of the work and labour process in the closing decades of the twentieth century have, once and for all, weakened the power of skilled industrial workers. Their place has been taken, says Gorz, by social movements such as the womenʹs movement and the green movement, and all those who refuse to accept the work ethic so fundamental to early capitalist societies. Provocative and heretical, Farewell to the Working Class is a classic study of labour and unemployment in the post-industrial world. |
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able abolished abolition Alain Touraine alienation anarcho-syndicalism André Gorz apparatus automation autonomous activities autonomous production become bourgeoisie capacities capital capitalist cent centralised civil society collective worker cooperation create cultural defined demand dividual division of labour economic eliminated ethical everything exchange-value existence external factory fascism Führer G.W.F. Hegel goals Gorz heteronomous hierarchy ideology individual industrial internalise letariat longer machine Marx Marx's marxist mass material means of production mediation ment morality movement needs negation never non-class organisation personal power political position possible post-industrial prime minister productive forces proletariat realisation recognise reduced relations of production replaced result revolutionary robots Rudolf Bahro sector skilled workers social relations socialised socially necessary labour specific sphere of autonomy sphere of heteronomy sphere of necessity subordinate tasks technical tion trade transcendent use-value wage labour whole working-class