1/31/2024 0 Comments Plutocracy 3 class war![]() Defined elsewhere (Standing, 2009, 2011), briefly it has seven groups, not all of which are classes in either the Marxian or Weberian senses. The class structure corresponding to that system was relatively easy to describe, with a bourgeoisie – employers, managers and salaried professional employees – confronting a proletariat that between them formed the spine of society.ĤToday, a profoundly different global class structure is taking shape. For the proletarian, the main objective was better, ‘decent’ labour, not escape from labour. It was a force for good for many decades, but it was ultimately stalemated by its intrinsic labourism, wanting as many people as possible in “jobs” and linking social and economic entitlements to the performance of labour.ģIn the middle decades of the 20 th century, capital, the trades unions and labour and social democratic parties all agreed to create a society and a welfare state oriented to labourism, based on a proletarianised majority, oriented to stable labour, with benefits linked to labour. But in this case we are going through the painful construction of a global market system, whereas he was writing about the creation of a national market economy and the institutions for embedding the economy in society.ĢWhereas in the early 20 th century, the proletariat – then the growing core of the working class – was in the vanguard of political and social change, it ceased to have the size or strength or progressive outlook to fulfil that role in the 1980s. Today we are in the midst of the Global Transformation, analogous to Karl Polanyi’s Great Transformation (Polanyi, 1944). DOI: 10.4000/rccs.5521ġEvery social formation produces its class structure, even if it is superimposed on preceding structures. ![]() * Article published in Portuguese in RCCS 103 (May 2014).
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