At New Almaden we can see the steps in the proletarianization dance: the alienation of indigenous and peasant populations from the land, the formal establishment of white racial rule, scientific management continually optimizing for maximum profits, looming soldiers. It all adds up to a laboring class with no legal way to reproduce their lives

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There are five such crises, which at times overlap. They are climate change and the consequences of global warming; resource scarcity – particularly for energy, minerals and fresh water; societal ageing, as life expectancy increases and birth rates concurrently fall; a growing surplus of global poor who form an ever-larger ‘unnecessariat’; and,

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Before the wage earner could emerge as our society’s paradigmatic subject, a condition historian Michael Denning calls “wagelessness” had to be imposed. “Capitalism,” Denning writes, “begins not with the offer of work, but with the imperative to earn a living.”24 In other words, it begins with manufactured insecurity—insecurity in its new modern

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