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Farewell to the Working Class
An Essay on Post-Industrial Socialism
Gorz, Andre Publisher: Pluto Press, London, United Kingdom
Year Published: 1982 First Published: 1980
Pages: 152pp ISBN: 0-86104-364-2
Dewey: 335.9
Resource Type: Book
Gorz argues that changes in science and technology have broken the power of industrial workers, especially skilled workers, and that, as a result, they are no longer central to the socialist project.
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Table of Contents
Preface: Nine Theses for a Future Left
Introduction
1. The Working Class According to Saint Marx
2. The Myth of Collective Appropriation
3. The Proletariat as Replica of Capital
4. Workers' Power?
5. Personal Power and Functional Power
6. A New Historical Subject: The Non-Class of Post-Industrial Proletarians
7. The Post-Industrial Revolution
8. Towards a Dual Society
9. The Sphere of Necessity: The State
Postscript: Destructive Growth and Productive Shrinking
Appendix 1. Towards a Policy of Time
Appendix 2. Utopia for a Possible Dual Society
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