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In a real sense, under capitalism, all workers are precarious, meaning that they can be downsized, replaced, deskilled, outsourced, and so on. It’s simply a matter of degree.
STEVE ONGERTH is a public transportation worker in Richmond, California. He has been a radical labor/eco organizer for over a quarter century and is cofounder of the IWW Environmental Union Caucus (https://ecology.iww.org).
In a real sense, under capitalism, all workers are precarious, meaning that they can be downsized, replaced, deskilled, outsourced, and so on. It’s simply a matter of degree.