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Transformation of work and class struggle

My starting point in this talk is the end of the 1980s crisis in socialist Yugoslavia. In this moment, when the contours of our post-socialist present are being drawn, we witness a peculiar popularity of the theory of post-industrial society. Embraced equally by social scientists and the political class, "post-industrial society" is now posited as the unproblematic ideal of social progess. At the same time, a class conflict of unprecedented proportions in which devalued industrial workers play a central role is taking place. The outcomes of this prolonged moment of crisis, which include deindustrialization, lead to questions about the relationship between the production of knowledge, transformations of work (and labor) and class struggle. These are discussed with a focus on the sociological accounts of the contemporary class conflicts.

labor, sociology, socialism, capitalism, post-industrial society, Yugoslavia

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