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Steve Wright is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University. He has written widely on operaismo, including Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism (Pluto, second edition, 2017). 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 luned 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 pavs!’ 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
