Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Print, Document Work, and Class Politics
1 What Are Militants? Ceto politico and ceto operaio
2 Texts Have Bodies Too: Towards a Materialist Approach to Document Work and Genre
3 Genre, Document Work and Militancy amongst the Operaisti: Some Preliminary Reflections
Part 1 The Workers’ Enquiry and Co-research
Introduction to Part 1
4 The Fiat Workers’ Enquiry of 1960–61: Setting the Scene
5 The Fiat Workers’ Enquiry of 1960–61: What Actually Happened?
6 The Meaning of the Workers’ Enquiry and Co-research in the Early 1960s
Part 2 Essays and Their Contexts
Introduction to Part 2
7 Cultural Production in the Italy of the ‘Economic Miracle’
8 The Essay and Its Discontents
9 The Role of the Review in Classical Workerism
10 The Book Trade and Academia
Part 3 Leaflets and Sundries
Introduction to Part 3
11 The Emergence of the Assemblea operai e studenti
12 The Assemblea’s Document Work
13 A Short Addendum on Pamphlets
Part 4 Potere Operaio
Introduction to Part 4
14 Debating Organisation in Print: Potop 1969–71
15 Other Elements of Potere Operaio’s Genre Repertoire
16 Two Brief Interludes: ‘In Praise of Illegal Work’ and ‘Sotto la Mole’
17 A Gamble That Failed: Potere Operaio del lunedì
Part 5 Internal Documents and Perspectives Papers
Introduction to Part 5
18 Internal Communication Concerning Potere Operaio’s Press and Organisation
19 ‘The Measures Taken’
20 Position Papers and Discussion Documents
Part 6 ‘Dites-le avec des pavés!’ Autonomist Newspapers and the Challenge of Radio
Introduction to Part 6
21 The Best Re(a)d Paper in Autonomia?
22 Senza Tregua – A Brief and Unhappy Existence?
23 ‘A Paper That Speaks, a Radio That Writes’: I Volsci and the Impact of Radio on the Printed Word
Part 7 Journals in a Minor Key
Introduction to Part 7
24 ‘The Firebrands of Porto Marghera’
25 ‘There Is No Housework in Marx’
Conclusion: Print, Document Work, and Class Politics
Glossary
References
Index
