Class to Class: Working Views Out of the Factory

Abstract

Articles in this book consist of collection of studies prepared for the lecture by students who attended the seminars of Ayse Bugra on working life and labour movements. In these lectures given by Bugra, especially focuses on the form taken by working life and workers’ life in capitalist society. Processes of loosing control on their jobs and lives with the effect of job and
life experiences of people who has to work to live are in the centre of subjects focused on in these seminars. Most of the students who attended the seminar and therefore who wrote the articles constituting the book, experienced the transformations created by neo-liberalism in the working life and worked in various branches of service sector. The common point of articles mostly is formed in the framework of the concept of being un-property occurring together with the capitalist production process, in other words, quitting the production instruments by producers and by moving here causes the transformation of social relations. Moreover, the commodification of labour and human, both the working life of workers and in general manner current reflections of loosing control on the social existence constitutes common characteristics of afore mentioned articles. 

Keywords

• Class
• Working
• Views