Le Passionné, le Surchargé, le Méritocratisé et le Déprimé: quatre subjectivités pour penser la composition de classe des journalistes québécois

Abstract

This article examines the impact of the current form of capitalism on the journalistic labour process, and more specifically on the subjectivities of Quebec journalists. Following the research which analyzes the mobilization of the subjectivity of workers by the new managerial forms of post-Fordist capitalism, we postulate that the current journalistic labour process produces four types of subjectivities which are superimposed in a cyclical way: the Passionate, the Overloaded, the Meritocratized and the Depressed. This cycle of subjectivities gradually leads to a process of class decomposition. Leaving the profession is a quest for a more liveable cycle of subjectivities.