ABSTRACT
When we consider the industrial work of migrants in sectors like food processing and construction and the peopling of the Northwest landscape with bands of itinerant laborers unable to find steady work even in old industrial jobs. The notion among some critical theorists that the digital age has implanted a new paradigm for capitalism looks suspect, not withstanding the emergence of unprecedented social configurations. This chapter focuses on major writings by Moishe Postone and Andr Gorz, both of whom produced influential analyses of the violence wrought by new capitalist developments with an emphasis on emergent re-temporalizations of workers' daily experiences. The violence of socially necessary labor time mounts as capitalist development careens forward. The cities of the Pacific Northwest have gained well-deserved images as hot spots for the emergence of all things new in the world wrought by neoliberal capitalism, including novel patterns of everyday time.
