Livre d'Or

My favourite essay on class is https://siderea.livejournal.com/1260265.html (and my favourite essay on universities follows on from it: https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1238585.html). There's an invisible conflation of social class and economic class, which I feel acutely at the moment because my quintessentially middle class job barely covers the rent and doesn't cover the expected lifestyle.

The precariat can't organise because it doesn't have time and stability. It isn't a political force. Unionisation was the way the working class became a political force, and people under sixty basically haven't had that. And unionisation works much better in heavy industry than in coffee shops, because you have a large workforce in a single location.