At a conference in Vienna in early November 2006, many major international and some national trade unions formed a new organisation. Unlike previous such launchings, however, this occurred without any general global upsurge of union protests or expressions of labour self-confidence, and without public knowledge.
Read MoreTheories of `immaterial labour` posit that `creativity` has become the general characteristic of work under contemporary capitalism. This paper examines the implications of such an assertion for the understanding of the subjectivity of labour and labour`s transformative potential in the light of structural changes in contemporary capitalism and
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