THREE CHEERS FOR THE WORKING CLASS! NOTES ON THE GORZIAN WORK OF THE 1960S

André Gorz is known as one of the main authors in the contemporary debate on the crisis of the labor-based society. In Farewell to the working class, published in 1980, he fiercely criticizes traditional Marxism and its religion of the proletariat. However, Gorzs earlier work, published in previous...

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Published in:Revista brasileira de ciências sociais 2016-01, Vol.31 (91)
Main Author: Machado, Nuno Miguel Cardoso
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Subjects:
Labor force
Social classes
Social history
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Summary:André Gorz is known as one of the main authors in the contemporary debate on the crisis of the labor-based society. In Farewell to the working class, published in 1980, he fiercely criticizes traditional Marxism and its religion of the proletariat. However, Gorzs earlier work, published in previous decades, has not been given proper attention. The aim of this article is to analyze in detail his thought of the 1960s, showing that in those writings Gorz sustains theses that, in many aspects, are diametrically opposed to the ones upheld from Farewell to the working class onwards.
ISSN:0102-6909
1806-9053
DOI:10.17666/319107/2016