Not Waving but Drowning: Precarity and the Working Class

MarkH
Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:41:22 +0000
Precarity, Work, Miscellaneous, International, Magazine, Analysis, Mark Hoskins

In ‘Not Waving but Drowning: Precarity and the Working Class’, Mark Hoskins takes a critical look at the idea put forward by some academics and even parts of the anti-capitalist movement that the “precariat” is the revolutionary subject of our epoch. After examining the subjective conditions of the precarious subject today and comparing its objective conditions to those of the working class of the last century, he goes on to explore how these conditions relate to our end goal, a communist society and what lessons that can teach us in our attempt to get there.