Collective worker consciousness extends from the factory to national and international division of labour

Evidence

The “collective worker” understands that this is what he is, not merely in each individual factory but in the broader spheres of the national and international division of labour. It is precisely in the organisms which represent the factory as a producer of real objects and not of profit that he gives an external, political demonstration of the consciousness he has acquired. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 814

Categorization

• XREF: The move from factory to national/international division of labour aligns with Lucien Febvre and Braudel’s scales and with the imaginary-community frame of the nation Gramsci later uses. — connects to: Lukács located revolutionary agency in workers’ self-awareness as commodities — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 66; Schiller transferred the division of labor from classes to the inner mind — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 182; Hierarchical labor shapes inequality through consciousness, not just wages — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 904 (+1 more)