Converging Struggles: Working-Class Composition, Technological Development, and Ecological Politics

Looking back at the history of labor struggles since the advent of capitalism, one pattern is striking: struggles against the devaluation and for the decommodification of labor have tended to trigger ‘fixes’ and ‘innovations’ of capital, including technological ones. Thus, if the technologies of production are now more at the heart of catastrophic climate production than ever, the question is how current labor struggles can contribute to eco-social and decolonial ends, rather than fueling the next phase of capitalist accumulation and thereby ultimately accelerating the climate crisis. In their contribution to the BG text series “Allied Grounds,” researchers Lorenzo Feltrin and Emanuele Leonardi explore the politics at play. Questo articolo è stato tradotto in francese (https://riot-editions.fr/ouvrage/apres-la-revolution-numero-4/), italiano (https://www.globalproject.info/it/in_movimento/organizzazione-e-convergenza-la-composizione-di-classe-tra-sviluppo-della-tecnologia-e-crisi-ecologica/24474) e tedesco (https://berlinergazette.de/die-konvergenz-der-kaempfe-organisieren-zusammensetzung-der-arbeiterinnenklasse-technologische-entwicklung-und-oekologische-politik/).