Loss of expected work erodes the discipline work once imposed on the working class

Evidence

As Owen Jones pointed out in his book Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class, work, not some lost moral sensibility, was once the source of working-class discipline. But what happens to people with no expectation of work, or of any kind of meaningful future? “When the punks cried ‘No Future’, at the turning point of 1977, it seemed like a paradox that couldn’t be taken too seriously”, Italian theorist Franco “Bifo” Berardi writes in his most recent book After The Future: Actually, it was the announcement of something quite important: the perception of the future was changing […] — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1293

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Teachers must enforce discipline just as disciplinary institutions collapse under capitalism — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 55; The pecule system withheld worker wages to enforce discipline and teach savings; Depoliticized labor markets discipline workers through the threat of unemployment and lower wages — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 796 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The pecule system withheld worker wages to enforce discipline and teach savings #expands (0.80)
• Depoliticized labor markets discipline workers through the threat of unemployment and lower wages #qualifies (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 796
• Unemployment structurally disciplines workers and lowers labor costs in capitalism #qualifies (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 150