{"id":56624,"date":"2021-02-03T10:47:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56624"},"modified":"2021-02-03T10:47:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:47:51","slug":"global-transformation-the-precariat-overcoming-populism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56624","title":{"rendered":"Global transformation: the precariat overcoming populism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Global transformation: the precariat overcoming populism<\/a><\/h3>\n
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A contribution to debate urging the mainstream left not to be distracted by populism. Aim instead for what we know about the near Future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Toulouse delivery men from Uber Eats or Deliveroo protest against precarity. December, 2020. Alain Pitton\/PA. All rights reserved.<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Transformations tend to go through several preliminary phases. In Britain, the \u2018dis-embedded\u2019 phase in the development of industrial capitalism involved the Speenhamland system launched in 1795, the mass enclosures that created a proto-proletariat, and disruption by a technological revolution. All this prompted a period of primitive rebels \u2013 those who know what they are against, but not agreed on what they are for \u2013 in which protests were mainly against the breakdown of the previous social compact.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Those included the days-of-rage phase that culminated in the mass protest in Peterloo in 1819, brutally suppressed by the state, and the Luddites, misrepresented ever since as being workers intent on smashing machines to halt \u2018progress\u2019, when in fact what they were doing was protesting at the destruction of a way of living and working being done without a quid pro quo.<\/p>\n

In my\u00a0A Precariat Charter<\/i><\/a>\u00a0written in 2014, sketching a precariat manifesto for today\u2019s Global Transformation, I concluded by citing the stanza from Shelley\u2019s\u00a0The Masque of Anarchy<\/i><\/a>, written in reaction to the Peterloo massacre. Jeremy Corbyn was later to cite it in his campaign speech of 2017, which James Schneider recalls in\u00a0his contribution to this debate<\/a>. Shelley expressed it in class, not populist terms, as I did, in my case signifying that the precariat was evolving as a class-in-the-making. Corbyn seems to have expressed it in support of a left populism.<\/p>\n

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Global transformation: the precariat overcoming populism A contribution to debate urging the mainstream left not to be distracted by populism. Aim instead for what we know about the near Future. Toulouse delivery men from Uber Eats or Deliveroo protest against precarity. December, 2020. Alain Pitton\/PA. All rights reserved. Transformations tend to go through several preliminary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27545,10696,13781,30906],"class_list":["post-56624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-guy-standing","tag-open-democracy","tag-populism","tag-precariat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56625,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56624\/revisions\/56625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}