Struggles over work time often matter more than wage demands in capitalist societies.

Evidence

So, in the context of everyday practices, temporal strategies like letting others wait, holding back, beating them to the punch, hesitating, changing the rhythm, varying the duration, etc., often lie at the center of social contestation, while on the middle level of time the struggle for time in life, that is, concerning time for education and retirement, vacations and holidays, weekend and night work, or periods of compensation for sickness or unemployment, often shapes economic and political debates in capitalistic societies even more than demands for a certain wage level. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 101

Categorization

• XREF: Offers a concrete framing device for the reader’s articles on how time rather than money anchors political contestation. — connects to: Fear of unemployment disciplines workers into subordination to capital. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 250; Forms of popular struggle vary dramatically across place and time. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 252

Broader Connections

• Fear of unemployment disciplines workers into subordination to capital. #contradicts (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 250