Growing Working Class

A Reply to the “Farewell to the Proletariat” Argument

Elif Çağlı

October 1999





It is the globalised proletariat, not the “popular alliances” dominated by the petty-bourgeoisie, that is ringing the danger bells of the globalising capitalist order of exploitation. Our aim in this book is to clarify the reality of the working class in various aspects under the shining scientific light of Marxism. The plain truth revealed by this study, which is carried out on the basis of the analyses of Marxist theory without being deceived by the distortions of bourgeois statistics and without drowning the reader in figures, is this: The working class is growing, in spite of those who want to say goodbye to it or try to downplay it.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Academic Marxism Bidding Farewell to The Proletariat

The Working Class As A Whole

Scope of the Working Class

Class in Itself and Class for Itself

On the Revolutionary Potential of the Class

Structure Of The Working Class

Sphere of Capitalist Production and Productive Labour

Transport Industry

Sphere of Circulation and Unproductive Labour

Services with Different Aspects

Position of Civil Servants

Unemployed Workers

Is The “Middle Class” Or The Working Class Growing?

“Deindustrialisation”, “Robotisation” Or Capitalist Laws Of Development?

“Deindustrialisation”?

“Robotisation”?

The Problem of Creating Free Time

“Centre” and “Periphery” Debate

Importance of Labour Unions





Source: 

en.marksist.net/node/8281

link: Elif Çağlı, Growing Working Class, October 1999, https://enternasyonalizm.org/node/629

published on 13 June 2024