Abstract
This article proposes to identify the relations between the changes in labor and the recent global cycle of struggles. The shared understanding in the investigation is that from the 1970s, capitalism goes through a transformation characterized for the growth of the role of the cognitive dimensions of the work. Unlike the Fordist dynamics, which tended to exclude the worker’s subjectivity in the production processes, the post-Fordist work requires the worker’s subjective participation not only in the production. In other words, the worker participates through their capacity to create, imagine, intervene, but also in the circulation dynamics. Therefore, contemporary production happens, extrapolating the otherwise confined factory spaces, disseminating through the entire social fabric in a cooperation between networks and streets. In that context, the city turns into a space of production and valorization of labor. In face of life and work conditions in the city, increasingly precarious, the city is also a territory for struggles to improve life conditions and the city’s democratic administration. While, in the factories, the workers organized around the rights related to wages and schedules; in the city, the multitude struggles for the physical and incorporeal infrastructure for social life, this that in last analysis feeds the cognitive economy. It is in this direction that the recent revolts in the global metropolises correspond to the struggles of the contemporary work. In this scene, this text proposes to think the necessity to create a new political agenda that makes justice to the new technical composition of work.Keywords: precariousness, city, multitude, struggles.
Highlights
This article proposes to identify the relations between the changes in labor and the recent global cycle of struggles
Carolina Salomão Corrêa wages and schedules; in the city, the multitude struggles for the physical and incorporeal infrastructure for social life, this that in last analysis feeds the cognitive economy. It is in this direction that the recent revolts in the global metropolises correspond to the struggles of the contemporary work
A expectativa dos autores é que seu levantamento seja do interesse daqueles que ignoravam a existência de uma classe trabalhadora no século XVIII e “daqueles cuja concepção de nação, raça e etnicidade obscureceram um campo de força em que se desenvolve toda a história e um mundo popular de cooperação e realização vital” (Linebaugh e Rediker, 2010, p. 269)
Summary
A partir da década 1970, o modelo de produção fordista/ taylorista, até então hegemônico começa a dar sinais de esgotamento. Quando a atividade produtiva é organizada em rede e o valor que ela acumula é intangível, o capital perde a métrica baseada no tempo de trabalho e a única maneira de governança são as finanças. A medida de valor do capitalismo clássico baseado no excedente do tempo de trabalho não serve mais para mensurar o valor dos produtos uma vez que, como vimos, as dimensões imateriais da produção constituem a maior parte do valor. No capitalismo cognitivo, a exploração não está restrita ao produto desenvolvido no espaço e tempo restritamente trabalhado, mas extrapola o tempo de trabalho formal capturando os valores produzidos na rede complexa das trocas de informação, de conhecimento, de saberes, a cooperação e interação social, afetiva, coletiva. O dilema do capital é o de depender da liberdade e da circulação para valorização, mas garantir a restrição e o controle para exploração
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