The strike has become a ritualized simulacrum emptied of real stakes.

Evidence

Everything occurs as if each person had, after declaring a strike, “occupied” his place and work station and recommenced production, as is the norm in a “self-managed” occupation, exactly in the same terms as before, all while declaring himself (and in virtually being) permanently on strike. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 98

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior interest in ritualized social forms and how institutional practice survives its own emptied meaning.