A strike is an organized cessation from work. It is the collective halting of production or services in a plant, industry, or area for the purpose of obtaining concessions from employers. A strike is labor’s weapon to enforce labor’s demands.
To abandon the strike is to abandon the concept of wage labor; for the essence of wage labor as opposed to slave labor, is refusal to work when conditions of work become unbearable.
Liberalization in France was quintessentially a state project. That is true of neoliberalism more generally, but never more so than in France. Neoliberalism is simultaneously a response to the crisis of the earlier Fordist growth model, and a response to the failure of classical liberalism; it is t…
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