Workers’ Political Consciousness in Demobilized Class Societies: Redistribution, Recognition and Representation

How are we to understand working-class consciousness under current conditions? We argue that in this conjuncture, the dominant form of workers’ consciousness is a moral sense of injustice, a protest against violations of an implicit social contract. The reactive scandalization of broken promises and violated expectations, rather than systematic ideological edifices, dominate as a modus operandi of workers’ political consciousness today.