Charles Heckscher on Transient Solidarities
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- Video without slides: https://youtu.be/ZjV7Q7uX4Ds
- Version showing the slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chQmqmeU7tQ
Recorded on 16 January 2014 in Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House.
Description
"Solidarity has not died, despite laments about the loss of community and the wide decline of mass actions; it can be mobilised in new ways through developing networks of plural transient relations. Charles Heckscher is the director of the Center for Workplace Transformation at Rutgers University." (https://wn.com/transient_solidarities_commitment_and_collective_action_in_post_industrial_societies)
Points from slides
(5:55) Solidarity = Relations + Ideology (moral appeal)
(34:10) Orchestrating the new relations
- Purpose: Image of a shared desirable future
- Platform: Tools; Data; Connections
- Process: Celebrating successes; Enforcing norms; Focusing campaigns
| Relations | Ideology | Collective action | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Craft | Traditional, self-governing communities | Way of life: utopian decentralized community | Continuous, decentralized ... Sustained self-protective organization, Millenialism |
| Industrial | The factory: mass, oppositional | Extension of Rights; Confrontation / Manichaean opposition | Centralized episodic, oppositional uprisings, simple focus |
| Collaborative | Networked "friending" (Cohesive small world) | Openness, diversity, understanding | Orchestrated "projects", swarms |