ABSTRACT
Does the information age have a proletariat? You betcha sweet ass it does. If Marx is still remembered today, he is remembered as an economist, political theorist and philosopher. But his role as ethnographer of the British working class in the nineteenth century is often forgotten: the relevant and copious pages of Capital are hardly referred to. But in the 1980s and 1990s, a different literate proletariat has emerged, with access to complex communication devices and the ability to write and disseminate the fine details of its own conditions of existence. One site for this has been the magazine Processed World, begun in San Francisco in 1981 and dedicated to becoming ‘a forum for “ordinary” workers’ (p. 7). Hence from page 242:
1 hour of TV with breakfast 4 hours on VDT at work 45 minutes of Tele-shopping at lunch 4 hours on VDT at work 1 hour dinner preparation-TV on 5 hours TV during and after dinner 8¼ hours sleep
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