LAUSR

One of the more slippery signifiers in cultural and political theory is the “worker.” Entire histories, epistemologies, political platforms, economies, and indeed states have been formed around the worker, and it is no exaggeration to say that the long worker century (longer than all those others that trespass beyond a hundred years) has been epochal in how we understand the human subject. Of course, that the concept of subject is so easily associated with the edifice of bourgeois thought (and white, male, European too) has presented itself as a catechresistic nightmare for thinking the worker.