Quote from André Gorz

[aislingtheach]

«We have no words to speak about our oppression, our distress, our bitterness, and our revolt against the exhaustion, the stupidity, the monotony, the lack of meaning of our work and of our life, against the contempt in which our work is held; against the despotic hierarchy of the factory, against a society in which we remain the underdogs and in which goods and enjoyments that are considered normal by other classes are denied to us and are parceled out to us only reluctantly, as though we were asking for a privilege. We have no words to say what it is and how it feels to be workers, to be held in suspicion, to be ordered around by people who have more and who pretend to know more and who compel us to work according to rules they set and for purposes that are theirs, not ours. And we have no words to say all this because the ruling class has monopolized not only the power of decision-making and of material wealth, they have also monopolized culture and language.» [emphasis his, not mine]

Gee, I would love to know which of his books contains this passage.

It's an intro quote for a chapter of the book «Justice and the Politics of Difference», from Iris Marion Young. But oddly, I do not see the source.