Subject: Re: AUT: Re: intellectuals: job mobility
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 16:32:57 +1100


>From: aileen <sovietpop-AT-eircom.net>
>Reply-To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: AUT: Re: intellectuals: job mobility
hi all

>I've been reading The Individualised Society by Bauman
>(see a few quotes below). In it he worries that increased job
>mobility has meant that it is impossible to build the types
>of relationships over time that are necessary to create the
>solidarites that will eventually lead to organisations (specifically
>trade unions) that are capable of resisting capitals excesses and
>regulate work relationships in the interest of the worker.
>I just wondered if anyone can recommend any articles
>that discuss this issue.

the early IWW was largely a movement of migratory casual workers so to say 
that casualisation = no solidarity was at least untrue in the US and 
Australia in the 1910s. i think one of the early autonomists (Sergio 
Bologna?)  argued that casual work wasn't a barrier to proletarian struggle 
but an advantage for it because it meant that struggles could circulate with 
the moving workforce.

peter

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