Yesterday, short before leaving for Australia, I attended an interesting event “The Destruction of the Middle Class“, organized by the ÖGB (Austrian Trade Union), together with Jan Schmidt, check his blogpost for his leave-Vienna notice:
Flashlights: political jargon that tried to capture the change from Fordist society to a post-Fordist society.
A society where the knowledge worker is supposed to be dominant accompanied by precarious employment contexts.
Remainders of classical leftist aversion against technology (ridiculing the digital economy) were mingled with an appeal to think networks to counter the ruling elite. There was a constant notion of a change for the worse which is not surprising since Fordism created the unions. The unions that seek for a new mission statement in new and global economy.
Besides that some interesting perspectives on the world we live in and a clear advice to network.
What they didn’t mention that the proper tools are at hand: Social Software.
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