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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.32,0:00:10.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The defining characteristic of the\Nneoliberal crusade around the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.81,0:00:22.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would argue, is the rise of precariousness.\NThe exclusion of large sectors of people
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.85,0:00:29.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the official economy, just shocked\Nout of the roles.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.14,0:00:38.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I do in this alternative history of\Nneoliberalism, is look at the key junctures
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.47,0:00:43.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where countries were prescribed what's\Ncalled economic shock therapy,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.39,0:00:49.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the whole set of these policies were\Nimposed all at once.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.21,0:00:52.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like Russia in the mid-'90s, is the\Nclassic example.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.89,0:00:55.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or Poland in 1989.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.31,0:00:58.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we know about these key junctures\N
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.34,0:01:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that society has been much, \Nmuch more unequal.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.12,0:01:07.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This rapid fire selling off of the state\Ncreates an oligarchic class.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.86,0:01:14.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It also just throws millions of people out,\Nnot just out of work.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.39,0:01:17.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But out of the organized economy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.41,0:01:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And precariousness is the signature\Nexperience of the neoliberal project.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.04,0:01:33.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Displacement, from mega dams, from export\Nprocessing zones, the rise of casual labor
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.15,0:01:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as opposed to steady protected work, \Nprotected by trade unions.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.34,0:01:42.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's why, mobility, and when you add\Nclimate change
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.29,0:01:49.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and mass displacement because of climate.\NA collision between weak public infrastructure
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.47,0:01:52.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is also a legacy of the neoliberal\Nproject,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.53,0:01:57.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which sees investing in the public sphere,\Nin that kind of public infrastructure
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.15,0:02:01.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as antithetical to the goals,\Nyou have this collision between
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.69,0:02:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,weak infrastructure and heavy weather,\Nlike we saw in New Orleans.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.50,0:02:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you have, millions of people
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.50,0:02:10.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,displaced by extreme weather.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.95,0:02:13.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The precariousness, \Nthe mobility,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.36,0:02:17.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these are the signature policies\Nof neoliberalism.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.11,0:02:20.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I've talked a little bit about how\Nthis ecomic project
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.67,0:02:23.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is adaptable enough to be able to
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.61,0:02:29.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be able to profit from cracking down\Non those mobile people, right.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.45,0:02:34.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That in a way, the market has very much\Nbeen created by neoliberalism,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.19,0:02:37.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the mass displacement, the need to look \Nfor better work,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.50,0:02:41.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether in cities, moving from\Ncountryside to cities,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.11,0:02:44.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or country to country, looking for\Nmore work.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.76,0:02:49.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, you come up against the privatized\Ninfrastructure,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.66,0:02:52.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like Bowing's 2.5 billion dollar\Nvirtual fence
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.69,0:02:57.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is being built on the border\Nbetween the U.S. and Mexico,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.13,0:03:00.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the largest homeland security\Ncontract issued to any company.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.91,0:03:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether it works or not\Nis beside the point.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.18,0:03:08.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is an economy,\Nand this is such a resilient model,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.14,0:03:12.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it can both displace the people,\Ncan't find jobs for them
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.16,0:03:14.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it can profit from containing them.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.59,0:03:18.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Halliburton, of course, one of their\Nmore recent contracts,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.65,0:03:25.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a contract to build detention centers,\Nin the case of, a vaguely worded
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.31,0:03:28.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unexpected immigration influx.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.64,0:03:34.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which I think is probably a reference\Nto mass displacement because
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.87,0:03:39.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of some sort of natural disaster,\Nprobably is what the reference is.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.68,0:03:48.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So precariousness is the signature\Naffect of neoliberalism.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.03,0:03:54.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what we're starting to see\Nare more and more, very interesting
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.93,0:04:00.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,social movements that are organizing \Naround the idea of precariousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.69,0:04:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because the women's movement has such\Na long history of organizing in sectors
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.72,0:04:13.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were ignored by a predominantly \Nmale labor movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.71,0:04:17.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It makes sense, that what we're seeing
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.23,0:04:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that are women are at the forefront\Nof these new organizing models.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.66,0:04:24.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the organizing of home workers, \Nfor instance,\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.64,0:04:27.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the organizing of sex workers,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.10,0:04:38.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the drive to get housework counted,\Nthe work of Marilyn Waring, for instance.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.85,0:04:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of this groundwork, that feminists
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.42,0:04:46.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have been laying is suddenly\NI think being noticed, finally,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.07,0:04:51.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,although, not enough, by some\Nleftwing male economic thinkers
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.65,0:04:58.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and writers, who are recognizing now,\Nthat this organizing of the precarious
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.29,0:05:00.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is our future.