2026-02-11.1_technicians and intersectionality

“A different interpretation […] held that [technicians] were employees with their own specific struggles to fight within the general front against capital.” - pg. 96

“Given that ‘the main victims of the present division of labor’ remained the manual workers, it was impossible to determine in any objective manner how and why particular technicians would take their side. In part this was because ‘the factory has not yet been analysed as a social reality’, in part because ’the alignment of technicians is not a given, but a product of struggles’. Not just any struggles, however; technical staff also had to challenge that division of labor from which many of them benefited.” - pg. 97

• Bologna & Ciafaloni 1969 & Steve Wright, Storming Heaven

-> conns to intersectionality, 2nd quote very applicable to e.g. whiteness