LABRST 2M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Working Class Hero, Precarious Work, Industrial Music

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Post Industrial Music Scapes: Music and Working
Class Reality from the 1970s to the 2010s
A Shifting Political Economy of Labour (1970s)
-the late 1960s to the early 1880s saw important shifts in the political economy of labour. These
Include:
1. the increasing global mobility of capital and its finacialization (facilitated by new trans-
portation and communications technologies)
2. A breakdown in the postwar consensus with layout, including a renewed emphasis on
profitability and the embrace of neoliberal economic policies
3. Shifts in the economic structure, leading to deindustrialization in the declining northwest
‘rush-belt’ and emoting services and IT industries in the ‘sun-belt’
3.1. massive decline in manufacturing jobs and factories becoming modernized w tech-
nology
-more social movements, more workers strikes, people were rejecting the system and their
profits were going down
-how do you shut this down? and how do you boost your profitability? You attack the workers
and their rights
-Neoliberalism becomes the new mood in business circles
-the state would invest in business, benefit of capital and not the benefit of labour
-moving way from manufacturing and moving towards ow wage service work or higher end IT
work
-‘sun-belt’ ; jobs were moving to more anti states in the Southern US that had more discrimina-
tory legislation towards unions
1. Shift to a flexible regime of accumulation based on just-in-time production methods and
precious employment relations (increasing part-time, fixed-term, contractual, and out-
sources work)
4. Increasing feminization of the labour market, meaning both that: (a) women were in-
creasingly represented in the workforce, but also that (b) the nature of work increasingly
came to resemble that found in traditional ‘female’ sectors (i.e more precarious)
4.1. increased precarious work, and women have been increasingly in precarious indus-
tries, and because the owl force has become to precarious, the entire work force has
become feminized in a sense
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4.2. women were going the work force at time where jobs were becoming more precari-
ous
5. Inner-city communities were faced with a blight of disinvestment cause by white-flight,
new forms of socio-economic segregation, the emergence of gated- communities, and in-
creasing criminalization of poverty, though stepped up policing of minority communities
and explosion of the prison population
6. The on-going automation of production
6.1. also led to the elimination of jobs in the manufacturing sector
6.2. Collectively these shifts weakened the structural power of organized labour, leaving
it increasingly the defensive by the early 1980s
Working class hero
-while the postwar Keynesian consensus was never a reality for women and racialize communi-
ties, by 1970s the promises of the postwar social order stated to appear unrealizable for a new
generation of white-working class youth as well
-Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, rock, country and punk music would tap-into express the
frustrations of this cohort, partially bemoaning the loss of the narrowly defined postwar ‘work-
ing class idea’ and occasionally critiquing the system that sold them this empty promise
-John Lennon “Working Class Hero” (1970)
uniformative, institutionalization,
a lot of broken people and broken lives because of a system of the time
this song chips away at the reality they were facing
-Rush “Working Man” (1974)
has the sense that this cannot be all thats to it, “I can live my life a lot better then I think I
am” - thinking there is more to life then what they are doing
defeat attitude, I'm just going to get drunk, whatever
mindless rut of work
-Billy Joel “Allentown” (1982)
Feelings of betrayal by not only capitalism and the American system but also by the unions
who left after membership decline
music video = a imagery of a guy who cant hold down a job and has to go from place to
place for work ; rise of precious work again
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Class reality from the 1970s to the 2010s. The late 1960s to the early 1880s saw important shifts in the political economy of labour. Rush-belt" and emoting services and it industries in the sun-belt". 3. 1. massive decline in manufacturing jobs and factories becoming modernized w tech- nology. More social movements, more workers strikes, people were rejecting the system and their profits were going down. Neoliberalism becomes the new mood in business circles. The state would invest in business, benefit of capital and not the benefit of labour. Moving way from manufacturing and moving towards ow wage service work or higher end it work. Increasing feminization of the labour market, meaning both that: (a) women were in- creasingly represented in the workforce, but also that (b) the nature of work increasingly came to resemble that found in traditional female" sectors (i. e more precarious)

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