Preface: Nine Theses for a Future Left I 1
Introduction I 14
1. The Working Class According to Saint Marx I 16
2. The Myth of Collective Appropriation I 23
3. The Proletariat as Replica of Capital I 35
4. Workers' Power? I 45
5. Personal Power and Functional Power I 54
6. A New Historical Subject:
The Non-Class of Post-Industrial Proletarians I 66
7. The Post-Industrial Revolution I 75
8. Towards a Dual Society I 90
9. The Sphere of Necessity: The State I 105
Postscript:
Destructive Growth and Productive Shrinking I 120
Appendix 1.
Towards a Policy of Time I 126
Appendix 2.
Utopia for a Possible Dual Society I 145
Introduction 1
1 From the Social State to the Capital State 9
The Great Refusal 9
The 'Exodus' of Capital 11
The End of Economic Nationalism 14
Blame it on Globalization' 16
The Resistible Dictatorship of the Financial Markets 19
The Chinese Mirage 22
2 The Latest Forms of Work 27
Post-Fordism 27
Uddevall a 32
Subjection 36
Autonomy and the Sale of Self 39
Work which is Abolishing Work 44
Metamorphoses of Wage Labour 46
Generalized Insecurity 52
3 The Lost Magic of Work 55
The Myth of the Social Bond 55
Generation X or the Unheard Revolution 59
Politics Lags Behind the Shift in Values 64
Socialization or Education? 67
4 Moving Beyond Wage-Based Society 72
Multi-Activity as a Key Social Issue 72
Exit Routes 78
Guaranteed income 80
Redistribution of work, liberation of free time 93
Changing the city 100
Epilogue 112
Digression 1 Community and Society 117
Digression 2 Main Touraine or the Subject of
Criticism 127
Notes 148
Index 169