Targeting the new proletariat

The Independent - London | November 14, 1996| | Copyright

The working class has completely vanished from the political vocabulary. What was once called "the proletariat" - perceived as an active agent of its own future - has marched off the stage forever.

In old black-and-white movies, you can still get a sense of what the expression used to conjure up: crowds on a grey day outside a football stadium, workers in their hundreds on the picket line at the factory gate. Now it has all dissolved into history.

The people, of course, are still somewhere to be found. There hasn't been a holocaust of the cloth-capped section of the population. At the bottom ...

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