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Antagonism
under cognitive capitalism : class composition, class consciousness and
beyond
by
Yann Moulier Boutang [Univs. Compiègne and Binghamton]
Abstract
: Far from being
an irenic society, cognitive capitalism (information society, knowledge-based
economy, globalization), after having put the working class movement into a very
defensive position in the North, is experiencing a renewal of antagonism, whereas
on the basis of the the enormous increase in waged people within the market economy in the
South (China, India, and including the ex-socialist countries) one could predict a process similar to the Brasilian one.
However
they are sharp differences between forms and effects of antagonism in late
Fordism and in knowledge-driven economies in globalization. This paper will
explore these differences and qualify the concepts of class composition, of
class consciousness and of class tout court at both levels of the world
economy: the post-industrial countries and the fast developing countries of the
South.
CV: Yann Moulier
Boutang teaches economics at the University of Technology of Compiègne in
France. Since Fall 2005 and hereafter, he is International Adjunct Professor at
the Department of Sociology and at the Fernand Braudel Center of Sate
University of New York at Binghamton.
His PhD (1997) From slavery to waged Labour,
published at the Presses Universitaires de Frances reexamines all forms of
bound-labour (indentured servant, colonial slavery, coolies) with special
attention to the Caribbean, North America, Brazil, South Africa, Australia, as
a means of understanding the role of immigration labour force in industrial
societies. The book has been translated into Italian (2002), and will be
published in Spanish by Akales Ediciones (Madrid, Spring 2006) . He is also
comparing transition from slave economies to the industrial world in Brazil and
Cuba.
He is an expert in international migrations issues
and has worked for French Administrations, and for international agencies such
as the ILO and OECD.
He has published various books about Portuguese
migrations, illegal migrations, and migrants in garment industries of the
Sentier
He has been investigating long run transformations
of capitalist system (globalization, mutation of the firm, the labour market,
the wage system, intangibles and property rights), in the the team of ISYS
(innovation/Systeme/strategy) in the Laboratory Matisse (URM 85-95
CNRS-Université Paris 1).
He proposes that we should understand the ongoing
transformation as the birth of a a third kind of capitalism: cognitive
capitalism.
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