Classified Transformation from Proletariat to Precariat

Abstract

One of the strictest realities of social life is class structure. Therefore, Karl Marx based his analysis of social structure on the labour form of the class that constantly produces itself and its opponent. He speaks of a class structure based on material labour determined by means of production and production relations. This class is known as the proletariat. However, in this cycle, which progresses continuously on the axis of change and transformation, the class has become flexible and labour has moved away from its material state.  In Marx's words, the solid has evaporated. In other words, the new social class that has adapted to the flexible life and labour process and was stuck between the continuous work and life changes is the precariat. The basis of the precariat class is not only the proletarian workers and their labour, but also their identity, colour, religious affiliations. Those who are outside the wall of equality aim to achieve the digital era and somehow their whole life has been cognitive, and they are living new fluid human's states resulting in alienation from their labour. In this study, the class transformation will be emphasized that Marx went through while evolving into precariat in the informatics society of the proletariat, which he put forward for the industrial society. The class transformation in question will be discussed in the context of Hard and Negri's class components and Guy Standing's precariat concept. This study will include the fluid course of class transformation. In addition to these, this study is important as it aims to analyze the contexts of human life, post-human and trans-human processes by including digitalization.