Immaterial Labour, Values, and Voting

Happen to be at a loose end in Derby on Thursday 22nd May?

Why not come to The Quad and listen to me speak about a paper I have in the works. For long time readers, the subject won't come as much of a shock: the talk is called Immaterial Labour, Values, and Voting Behaviour. Here is the blurb.

Phil Burton-Cartledge’s research into the changing character of work and class in the 21st century argues that there are reasons to think the future might be a better place. Phil argues that observations around the values differences between generations, which results in different voting preferences as well as tendency to not vote at all, the emergence of gender splits along attitudinal lines, and the decline of anti-immigrant, racist, sexist, and homophobic prejudices are all part of the same process. In this talk, Phil explains and criticises other approaches offered by political science scholarship that have observed the same phenomena, but offer limited and, at times, contradictory explanations that avoid addressing the significant structural changes capitalism in the West has undergone. In contrast, Phil suggests that analysing these changes in their entirety brings out their political implications – which might mean the present resurgence of extreme right wing authoritarian politics could be its last gasp.

This is at The QUAD at 7pm. It's free but booking is recommended - you can do that here.

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