This paper re-examines current thinking on worker-consciousness, and criticizes the prevailing reluctance to accommodate non-class identities in class subjectivity. Much of the problem with the discussion of worker-consciousness, the paper argues, is epistemological. Consciousness is both experiential and defined by ‘preconstituted’ knowledge. It is contradictory as much as it is a contested terrain of individual and group engagement with ‘reality1. The experience of work, and class, is mediated by non-work and non-class experiences and identities, otherwise we miss the territoriality of class. Understanding workers as producers of knowledge allows an appreciation of how language, is itself, constitutive of identity and consciousness.
Vision based autonomous docking for work class ROVs
