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movements can align not only because they can benefit from one another's victories since they share a common enemy, but because they recognize that they themselves are essentially different facets of one still larger movement all of whose parts must relate positively to one another if the whole and any of the parts will succeed--not only in defeating a shared enemy, but in gaining interdependent aims and creating a new liberatory society. This is principled and holist.
Liberating Theory
Michael Albert, Holly Sklar
Abbott’s (1988: 9–10) research foregrounds two points: the ‘evolution of professions results from their interrelations’, and professional work is constituted by tasks which the profession has successfully claimed for itself. The hold a profession establishes over certain tasks is known as ‘jurisdiction’, which is maintained, extended and refined on the basis of ‘a knowledge system’ capable of redefining ‘problems and tasks, defend them from interlopers, and seize new problems’
The Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance
Stephen Elstub and Oliver Escobar
The world in which we live has created a curious state of affairs in which we have moved from looking to flee from work (as demonstrated by the workers’ struggles of the 1960s and 1970s) to one in which work and our ability to maximise it has come to sit at the very core of our identity (Berardi, 2009). The shift that Berardi identifies here is one from something that used to be imposed via a hierarchy and which was a clearly defined task performed in exchange for wages to an increasingly digital and virtual workplace in which labour becomes a much more differentiated and mental process. In the case of the latter, what it means to be productive in such a workplace is much less clear and more troubling for the self.
The Experience Society
Steven Miles
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