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 |
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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 |
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Working class -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
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Labor movement -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
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Communism -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
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PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
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Communism
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Labor movement
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Politics and government
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Working class
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SUBJECT |
Italy -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069010
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Italy
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Cleaver, Harry, writer of foreword
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Bellofiore, Riccardo, writer of afterword
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Tomba, Massimiliano, writer of afterword
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ISBN |
9781786801166 |
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1786801167 |
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