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Author Wright, Steve, author

Title Storming heaven : class composition and struggle in Italian autonomist Marxism / Steve Wright ; foreword by Harry Cleaver ; afterword by Riccardo Bellofiore and Massimiliano Tomba
Edition Second edition
Published London : Pluto Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages)
Contents Weathering the 1950s -- Quaderni Rossi and the workers' enquiry -- Classe Operaia -- New subjects -- The creeping may -- Potere Operaio -- Toni Negri and the operaio sociale -- The historiography of the mass worker -- The collapse of workerism-- Conclusion
Summary Storming Heaven is the only book which looks at Italian workerist theory and practice, from its origins in the anti-Stalinist left of the 1950s to its heyday twenty years later. It focuses on the theme of workerism, or 'operaismo', which includes the refusal of work, class self-organisation, mass illegality and the extension of revolutionary agency, of of which are still practiced today by workers across the world. Emphasising the dynamic nature of class struggle as the distinguishing feature of workerist thought, Storming Heaven reveals how this form of radical politics developed alongside emerging social movements to great effect. It assesses the strengths and limitations of workerism as first developed by Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti, Sergio Bologna and others. This edition includes a new chapter looking at the debates around operaismo and Autonomia since the book originally appeared in 2002, and is updated with a new foreword and afterword
A history of Italian workerist theory, taking in Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti and Sergio Bologna
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-277) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Working class -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
Labor movement -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
Communism -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
Communism
Labor movement
Politics and government
Working class
SUBJECT Italy -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069010
Subject Italy
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Cleaver, Harry, writer of foreword
Bellofiore, Riccardo, writer of afterword
Tomba, Massimiliano, writer of afterword
ISBN 9781786801166
1786801167