The 'Great Moderation' and the International Assault on Labor


Συγγραφέας: Noam Chomsky


Noam Chomsky: The 'Great Moderation' and the International Assault on Labor (html, 8K)
A decade ago, a useful word was coined in honor of May Day by radical Italian labor activists: "precarity." It referred at first to the increasingly precarious existence of working people "at the margins" -- women, youth, migrants. Then it expanded to apply to the growing "precariat" of the core labor force, the "precarious proletariat" suffering from the programs of deunionization, flexibilization and deregulation that are part of the assault on labor throughout the world.