Working-class solidarity decomposed partly because unions were locked to a Fordist model.

Evidence

I think that in addition to what I said earlier are a kind of crushing of the previous forms of working-class solidarity. Well, a crushing — I guess it’s better to talk about decomposition really, in lots of ways, because it wasn’t simply, as I said, about capital hammering trade unions. It’s that trade unions hadn’t — trade unions in the form they had developed — had to fit with the Fordist mode of organisation, and as post-Fordism emerged, as Fordism fell apart — as I say, partly driven by the desires of workers — trade unions and other aspects of the labour movement failed to move with it. The effect of that is this kind of generalised atomisation, I think — a kind of collective depression, which isn’t experienced collectively, because nothing is, actually. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2106

Categorization

• XREF: The closing paradox — collective depression that can’t be experienced collectively — resonates with Fisher’s wider theme of privatised affect and with the mental-health-as-depoliticised-discourse arguments. — connects to: Trade unions declined because they stayed locked into the Fordist model — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2159; Post-Fordist restructuring was partly driven by workers’ own desires for freedom — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2100; Capital absorbed workers’ own desire to escape Fordist routine, trapping the left — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1405 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Trade unions declined because they stayed locked into the Fordist model #corroborates (0.96) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2159
• US unions traded bargaining power for collaboration with Fordist production #expands (0.85) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 798
• Capital absorbed workers’ own desire to escape Fordist routine, trapping the left #expands (0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1405
• Capital co-opted workers’ own desire for liberation from Fordist routine #expands (0.80) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 74
• Post-Fordist restructuring was partly driven by workers’ own desires for freedom #qualifies (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2100