But do you thin Val fol the Bashionable been developing for a long which time, with the so-called third incharacteri s the scur stage dustrial revolution. di capitaltera try the dochine But to deduce sociological in the importance of work? consequences from this, as Art Jhere are too aspects to dre Gorz has done -he says that this. The first is eco the workforce no longer has nomic, with the increase any role, that it has disap 1 organic composition - sc peared- descends into econo noe, technology, machiners mism. These visions confuse robotics and computers now the working class as a whole have mone importance- and the with a specific part, the indusprogressive decline of variatte trial workers and with the clas capital and of wage labour. sical production line; this position becomes more and litical consequences are very dangerous. There still exists a large working class but, nevertheless, capitalism is continually penetrating, on an unprece dented scale, numerous fields from which it was previously example of this. absent. (Ernest) Mandel is right when he says we are seeing an enormous expansion of the working class, of those who are forced to sell their labour in order to live.
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