ABSTRACT
One no longer knows where to look for oppression. In a standardized society such as ours, perhaps it has been too much talked about-one has seen oppression everywhere and one now finds oneself suffering from a kind of mental block regarding its definition. It’s obvious that there are new forms of oppression: new forms of immaterial oppression, for example, that act upon workers in the new technologies and the service sectors, or that derive from the flexibility and ferocious mobility of the labor market. The big difficulty is that it is no longer possible to identify a specific form of oppression capable of provoking an equally specific form of resistance. Perhaps the term oppression should be replaced by exclusion, or perhaps by destitution, suffering, or poverty.
