Workers and Capital

by Mario Tronti, translated by David Broder Verso Books 08/20/2019, paperback SKU: 9781788730402    The classic text of Italian workerism available in English for the first time Workers and Capital is universally recognized as the most important work produced by operaismo, a current of political thought emerging in the 1960s that revolutionized 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," "the 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, ye