Farewell to the Working Class - Softcover

Andre Gorz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0896081672 ISBN 13: 9780896081673

Publisher: South End Press, 1982

Synopsis

'Vintage Gorz - stimulating in its insight and rich in its documentation.' Guardian 'As unemployment rises, the struggle, Gorz insists, is not for the 'Right to Work' but for an income regardless of work, for the sharing of the reduced amount of necessary social labour, above all for the primacy of autonomous, self-determined activity. And it is a struggle, he claims, that is already taking place.' New Statesman André 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 women's 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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"Gorz is one of the most important political thinkers of our time." Le Monde "Vintage Gorz - stimulating in its insight and rich in its documentation." The Guardian "As unemployment rises, the struggle, Gorz insists, is not for the "Right to Work" but for an income regardless of work, for the sharing of the reduced amount of necessary social labour, above all for the primacy of autonomous, self-determined activity. And it is a struggle, he claims, that is already taking place." New Statesman

'Vintage Gorz - stimulating in its insight and rich in its documentation.' --Guardian 'As unemployment rises, the struggle, Gorz insists, is not for the 'Right to Work' but for an income regardless of work, for the sharing of the reduced amount of necessary social labour, above all for the primacy of autonomous, self-determined activity. And it is a struggle, he claims, that is already taking place.' --New Statesman

‘Vintage Gorz – stimulating in its insight and rich in its documentation.' --Guardian  ‘As unemployment rises, the struggle, Gorz insists, is not for the 'Right to Work' but for an income regardless of work, for the sharing of the reduced amount of necessary social labour, above all for the primacy of autonomous, self-determined activity. And it is a struggle, he claims, that is already taking place.’ --New Statesman

About the Author

André Gorz was one of Europe's leading thinkers on politics. He is the author of several books including Ecology as Politics and Paths to Paradise.

Edition details

• Publisher: South End Press
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0896081672
• ISBN 13: 9780896081673
• Binding: Paperback