Solidarity and the Event

Reading Hard Work by Fantasia and Voss.

As I stated before, they show much concern over the symbolic imaginary of labor, the transformative power of labor rituals. Embeddness in a larger movement of change and social transfiguration, lacking totally in the post-WWII business unionism, allows mundane shopfloor encounters to take on a more significant quality, to be sacralized.

They're using solidarity as the foundational sentiment of radical unionism.

Now, here's my question. Is solidarity independent of the actual event of labor, i.e. loyalty to the act of invention itself, or are they linked organically? In a certain sense this is a question of industrial union vs. craft union. In a certain sense it is also a question of the plane of immanence in relation to the event, or the Body without Organs in relation to the machines whose intensities constitute it.

For me it's an open question.

I'm leaning in a certain direction at the moment, though that will very likely change.

I'm thinking it's one of two possibilities.

*They are linked automatically, and capitalism is the artificial force that divides them in order to produce stabilized and neutered BwOs. So in this reading, craft specialization is a form of eternal return (becoming that looks like being, a dynamism that looks like stasis only because the dynamic is apportioned to a semi-stable set of practices). It is a contraction dependent upon the dilation of sociality in general.

*They are functionally autonomous, and it is the duty of politics/philosophy/whatever to create a space for their cohabitation and mutual reinforcement. So the current field of social desire is delinked, which occurs naturally as fields of repetition swerve apart. They swerve too far and society crumbles, so politics is necessary to intervene. I don't like this model because it's too close to the fascist one, the chaotic proles and businessmen/state unifed by the movement.

I think the two look about the same, though. They just suggest different strategies. In the second, you try and forcibly bring popular sentiment towards intensity. In the former you recognize the intensities present in popular sentiment and open spaces for them to push into greater intensity.

These are still unclear to me, both in their qualities and in their ramifications. This question though is central, the integration of craft desire and general desire. The event and solidarity...