Workers can overcome fragmentation, but sector structure determines mobilization paths and identity frames.

Evidence

Uneven development of the economy leads rather naturally to the seg­ mentation of workers into distinct groups based on their unique historical experiences in the process of integration into the capitalist economy, on the relative power they have attained in various sectors, on their relative social, racial, ethnic, and sexual cohesiveness as well as on their differential treat­ ment by employers. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 671 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Of course, the disarray of movements of resistance to capitalism in recent decades arises from the play of planetary forces, where economic interest, the protection of privilege, political rivalries and the appropriation of media dynamics by the logic of financial profitability are much more decisive factors than the clan divisions of statistically insignificant small groups. A little more ‘conviviality’ among activists will not, therefore, be enough to provoke an assault on the new Winter Palaces. And yet, how can we ignore that the fragmentation and/or hyper-localization of collectives putting forward (concrete or theoretical) alternatives to capitalism are at least in part responsible for its disastrous victory at the present time? — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 348 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Platform labor fragmentation is a deliberate politics of isolating workers across five dimensions — Donatella della Porta et al., Mobilizing Against the Odds: Solidarity…, 47; Anchoring union ties shape whether platform worker mobilization develops narrow or universalizing identity frames. — Donatella della Porta et al., Mobilizing Against the Odds: Solidarity…, 119; A processual perspective links specific conditions to workers’ political recognition capacities. — Donatella della Porta et al., Mobilizing Against the Odds: Solidarity…, 120 (+4 more)

Related

• The fragmentation of activist collectives aided capitalism’s current dominance (similarity 0.88)
• Uneven economic development fragments workers into distinct segmented groups (similarity 0.83)
• Platform workers must struggle to be recognized as workers at all (similarity 0.82)
• Platform labor fragmentation is a deliberate politics of isolating workers across five dimensions (similarity 0.80)
• De-industrialisation fragmented labour and replaced class struggle with identity politics (similarity 0.80)
• A processual perspective links specific conditions to workers’ political recognition capacities. (similarity 0.78)
• Sectoral union embeddedness, not platform work per se, shapes worker identity and mobilization (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Uneven economic development fragments workers into distinct segmented groups #corroborates (0.80) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 671
• Oppositional workers’ organizations mirror capitalist structure and thereby absorb class struggle #expands (0.75)
• The fragmentation of activist collectives aided capitalism’s current dominance #corroborates (0.75) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 348
• De-industrialisation fragmented labour and replaced class struggle with identity politics #expands (0.75) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 672