The clipboarded woman was a mere subaltern

The industrial working class was fragmented, while formerly auxiliary subaltern sectors made their voice heard independently. The outcome was the situation of indeterminacy we are still in today, which is prompting more sophisticated theoretical accounts.

underdeveloped or weak or subaltern cultures,

the market way of incorporating the masses into a subaltern position in the system

a fatalism by which the workers and their organizations had forged a ‘subaltern’ vision of the world for themselves

Post-colonial 'subaltern' theorists, who detect in the persistence of pre-modern traditions the resistance to global capitalism and its violent modernization, are here thoroughly wrong