"The Labor(s) of Degrowth"

by Barca, Stefania (2019)

Abstract

ABSTRACTThe degrowth debate so far has lacked a clear vision of what social subjects, and which processes of political subjectivation, can turn its vision into a political strategy. In this contribution to the debate on degrowth and eco-socialism, I point to the place of labor in the politics of socio-ecological revolution, arguing that degrowth should aim for a truly democratic, workers? controlled production system, where alienation is actively countered by a collective reappropriation of the products of labor and by a truly democratic decision-making process over the use of the surplus. Such strategy must be based on an extended concept of class relations that goes beyond the wage labor relation, and toward a broader conception of work as a (gendered and racialized) mediator of social metabolism. I conclude that ecosocialist degrowth should take the form of a struggle for dealienating both industrial and meta-industrial labor.

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Keywords

Degrowth, Capitalism, Eco-Socialism, Foster

Themes

Degrowth, Sustainibility

Links to Reference

• https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2017.1373300
• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2017.1373300
• https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10455752.2017.1373300?casa_token=qiO92Bv2R74AAAAA%3AvUfaGIZ-wT8Y4LnOcKeTNBAcx-IngCof83JymQ05DTdAkaZr9TF-eUaEMrRrAJhTCr8U_74XbK3l5w

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