Charles Heckscher on Transient Solidarities
- Video without slides: https://youtu.be/ZjV7Q7uX4Ds
- Version showing the slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chQmqmeU7tQ
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 |