Workers and capital /
"Workers and Capital is universally recognised as the most important work produced by operaismo, a current of political thought emerging in the 1960s that revolutionised the institutional and extra-parliamentary Left in Italy and beyond. In the decade after its first publication in 1966, the de...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Verso,
2019.
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| Edition: | English-language edition. |
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| Summary: | "Workers and Capital is universally recognised as the most important work produced by operaismo, a current of political thought emerging in the 1960s that revolutionised the institutional and extra-parliamentary Left in Italy and beyond. In the decade after its first publication in 1966, the debates over Workers and Capital produced new methods of analysis and a new vocabulary for thousands of militants, helping to inform the new forms of workplace, youth, and community struggle. Concepts such as "neocapitalism," "class composition," "mass-worker," "he plan of capital," "workers' inquiry" and "co-research" became established as part of the Italian Left's political lexicon. Five decades since it was first published, Workers and Capital remains a key text in the history of the international workers' movement, yet only now appears in English translation for the first time. Far from being simply an artefact of the intense political conflicts of the 1960s, Tronti's work offers extraordinary tools for understanding the powerful shifts in the nature of work and class composition in recent decades." -- |
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| Item Description: | Originally published under title Operai e capitale by Einaudi in 1966. |
| Physical Description: | xxxiv, 364 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781788730396 9781788730402 1788730402 1788730399 |