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An orchestra in rehearsal, each instrument playing for itself, gives the impression of the most dreadful cacophony. And yet these rehearsals are necessary for the orchestra to live as a single 'instrument'.
The Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings, 1916-1235
David Forgacs (ed.)
The ILO recognizes burgeoning unemployment in the global North and South and the worrying trend towards casual and low-quality work. Its response has been to announce an agenda called ‘decent work’ for all, and to make ‘decent work’ a core ‘sustainable development’ goal. But the ILO has no concrete plan for how ‘decent work for all’ could be accomplished under the current mode of capitalist development, where the proliferation of casual work is not an accident, but a strategy to increase profit and enhance productivity — specifically the productivity of labour in relation to capital, which is how economists define it (Munck, 2013).
After Development: Surplus Population and the Politics of Entitlement
Tania Murray Li
I call this “the central problem of intergenerational buck-passing” (CPIBP or “the central problem”), and think of it as the core concern of distinctively intergenerational ethics (“the pure intergenerational problem,” or PIP). The main idea is that future generations are extremely vulnerable to their successors. They are subject to what we might call an ongoing “tyranny of the contemporary” that is parallel in some ways to the problem of the “tyranny of the majority” that exercises a great deal of traditional political theory.
A Perfect Moral Storm
Stephen M. Gardiner
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