Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job

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Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job

Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job

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There’s a popular perspective that class is your income, maybe it’s your occupational status, and a few other variables. Instead, the shape of history, as Marx argued, is wrought by the struggles of those who participated in it. The interest in class, if you have a Marxist perspective, is not looking for a particular kind of demographic that will have the political solution for you. Where you see those kinds of struggles like tech won’t build it, or some of the organizing with Tech Workers Coalition, fitting into the argument?

I'm getting more comfortabler (I made that up) being in chaos as I shift from my sixties to my seventies. What I particularly liked about reading the book is those moments where people do find an alternative, find a way to resist, find different ways to do things with technology.Historian Eric Hobsbawm, in a reevaluation of the Luddites’ motivations for machine breaking, describes them as “collective bargaining by riot. People have fought against technologies, and there’s another truism that opposing “progress” never works. In light of a history rife with workers destroying machines, why do the Luddites cast the longest shadow? That kind of activity and those conversations are essential, and I’m eager to engage in them with others.

I teach university students, and they’re all young people, and no one listens to newly released music. They wrecked specific types of machinery that posed a threat to the particular industrial interests in each region.g., frameworkers, weavers, spinners) of each region manifested as variation in the Luddites' rhetoric, tactics, and degree of organization.

And even though the SPD was, by some measures, a peak in working class politics, it ended up leading to complete disaster: fascism. These kinds of arguments are made at the level of political strategy, as well as on a theoretical level with reference to various passages from Marx and other Marxist theorists. Breaking Things at Work is for anyone who has breathed a sigh of relief when their computer froze, resulting in their inability to work for the afternoon.

An agricultural variant of Luddism occurred during the widespread Swing Riots of 1830 in southern and eastern England, centring on breaking threshing machines.

Everything that takes place in the app which is controlled and monitored, where management is algorithmic and individualised. In North West England, textile workers lacked these long-standing trade institutions and their letters composed an attempt to achieve recognition as a united body of tradespeople. For Hobsbawm, “The value of this technique was obvious, both as a means of putting pressure on employers, and of ensuring the essential solidarity of the workers.Speaking of present conditions, arguably the only drawback of Mueller’s text is that it stops where it does: before the pandemic. The Second International really thought that socialism was inevitable, that they were riding the tide of History. Thomas argued in his 1970 history The Luddites that machine-breaking was one of the very few tactics that workers could use to increase pressure on employers, undermine lower-paid competing workers, and create solidarity among workers. The etymology of the word, as I am using it from the Greek, is to change into something higher or greater.



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