{"product_id":"the-weight-of-the-printed-word-text-context-and-militancy-in-operaismo-9781642597806","title":"The Weight of the Printed Word: Text, Context and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Weight of the Printed Word\u003c\/em\u003e, Steve Wright explores the creation and use of documents as a key dimension in the activities of Italian workerists during the 1960s and 1970s. From leaflets and newspapers to books, internal documents and workers' enquiries; the operaisti deployed a wide variety of printed materials in their efforts to organise among new subjectivities of mass rebellion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Wright demonstrates, the practice of working with print was a central part of what it meant to be a workerist or autonomist militant during these years: one that throws light both on the meaning of political engagement, as well as the challenges posed by the use of technologies of communication and by emergent social subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Print, Document Work, and Class Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 What Are Militants? Ceto politico and ceto operaio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Texts Have Bodies Too: Towards a Materialist Approach to Document Work and Genre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Genre, Document Work and Militancy amongst the Operaisti: Some Preliminary Reflections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1 The Workers’ Enquiry and Co-research\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to Part 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 The Fiat Workers’ Enquiry of 1960–61: Setting the Scene\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 The Fiat Workers’ Enquiry of 1960–61: What Actually Happened?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 The Meaning of the Workers’ Enquiry and Co-research in the Early 1960s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2 Essays and Their Contexts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to Part 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Cultural Production in the Italy of the ‘Economic Miracle’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 The Essay and Its Discontents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 The Role of the Review in Classical Workerism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 The Book Trade and Academia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3 Leaflets and Sundries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to Part 3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 The Emergence of the Assemblea operai e studenti\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 The Assemblea’s Document Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 A Short Addendum on Pamphlets\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 4 Potere Operaio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to Part 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14 Debating Organisation in Print: Potop 1969–71\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15 Other Elements of Potere Operaio’s Genre Repertoire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16 Two Brief Interludes: ‘In Praise of Illegal Work’ and ‘Sotto la Mole’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17 A Gamble That Failed: Potere Operaio del lunedì\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 5 Internal Documents and Perspectives Papers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to Part 5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18 Internal Communication Concerning Potere Operaio’s Press and Organisation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e19 ‘The Measures Taken’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e20 Position Papers and Discussion Documents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 6 ‘Dites-le avec des pavés!’ Autonomist Newspapers and the Challenge of Radio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to Part 6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e21 The Best Re(a)d Paper in Autonomia?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e22 Senza Tregua – A Brief and Unhappy Existence?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e23 ‘A Paper That Speaks, a Radio That Writes’: I Volsci and the Impact of Radio on the Printed Word\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 7 Journals in a Minor Key\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to Part 7\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e24 ‘The Firebrands of Porto Marghera’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e25 ‘There Is No Housework in Marx’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Print, Document Work, and Class Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359881036119,"sku":"9781642597806","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781642597806.jpg?v=1754125996","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-weight-of-the-printed-word-text-context-and-militancy-in-operaismo-9781642597806","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}