Labour’s corporatist crisis management disorganized working-class resistance to the crisis

Evidence

The dominant strategy had a distinctively corporatist character, incorporating sections of the working class and unions into the bargain between state, capital, and labor, the three “interests.” Crisis management has drawn successively on different variants of the same basic repertoire : incomes policy, first by consent, then by imposition; wage restraint; social contracting. The “natural” governor of this crisis has been the party of social democracy in power: Labour. This last factor has had profound effects in disorganizing and fragmenting working-class responses to the crisis itself. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1100

Categorization

• XREF: Strong echo of Gramsci’s analysis of the labour aristocracy and of how social democracy contains class struggle; connects to the earlier chapters’ use of Gramsci. — connects to: Interwar experts feared worker resistance more than any productive inefficiency — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 793; Health services replaced trade unions as stress-management institutions — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1602
• SEED: An essay angle: how the party ‘of the working class’ became the instrument that disciplined the class — social democracy as crisis-manager, not class champion.