A very schematic introduction to Precarias a la Deriva. For a more narrative version, check out the text First Stutterings

What is Precarias a la Deriva?

- 20J 2002 general strike in Spain – picket-survey – irrelevance of strike both in method and in material

- Need new tools: mapping the situation with an eye to conflict and intervention

- Affective ground: networks to break solitude. What we need.

Premeses

- Precariousness as a tentative category, an intuition. Can we use this?

- Departing from hypotheses of postfordism: from factory to metropolis

- Certain feminist lessons

o The personal is political

o Care and the economy of care as central

o Challenge to some divisions: Public/Private, Work/Life, Productive/Reproductive

- Departing from ourselves: not an anthropological object

Precariousness in Feminine

- Feminization of poverty

- Crisis of care, absorption by women

- Centrality of service/communications/care sectors, traditionally feminine: devenir feminino del trabajo?

- A history of unrecognised, unstandardised, uncentralised, unsyndicalised work

- Us, ourselves.

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Method: how to approach all these things at once, and have fun?

- the city and our spaces: continuum of life (time) moving through space

- the tool of the situationist derive, its alteration

- Attention to axes: mobility, income, knowledge, body, empresarial logic, conflict

- Organized by sectors: which?

Limits and doubts

- Validity of precariousness as a category: singularities and common places

- Question of differences: status, resources, expectations…

- Ay! Conflict, conflict…

Hypotheses

- Attention/Care/Sex continuum

- The ‘type of work//type of conflict’ hypothesis

o Repetitive work -> absentism

o ‘fulfilling work” -> frustration with resources, struggle for improvement ->absentism

o invisible work-> recognition

Hopes and futures

- Laboratorio de Trabajadoras?

- Snowball effect.