{"product_id":"workers-and-capital-lbe-isbn-9781788730396","title":"Workers and Capital (LBE)","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe classic text of Italian workerism available in English for the first time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWorkers and Capital\u003c\/i\u003e is universally recognised as the most important work produced by \u003ci\u003eoperaismo\u003c\/i\u003e, a current of political thought emerging in the 1960s that revolutionised the institutional and extra-parliamentary Left in Italy and beyond. In the decade after its first publication in 1966, the debates over \u003ci\u003eWorkers and Capital\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eWorkers and Capital\u003c\/i\u003e remains a key text in the history of the international workers’ movement, yet only now appears in English translation for the first time. Far from being simply an artefact of the intense political conflicts of the 1960s, Tronti’s work offers extraordinary tools for understanding the powerful shifts in the nature of work and class composition in recent decades.“Every generation of revolutionary anti-capitalists has to come to terms with how to read afresh the classic formulations of Marx and Lenin in ways appropriate to the conditions of their times.  How Tronti and some of his close colleagues did this in the 1960s is a spectacular and inspirational example of how to re-theorize class formation and the practices of class struggle from a ground-up and workerist perspective. While our contemporary world may be very different, there is much to be learned not only conceptually but also methodologically from Tronti’s brilliant and incisive interventions at all levels in the politics of his era.​”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —David Harvey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Tronti’s analyses of capital and the potential to overthrow it, which provided a beacon for generations of Italian radicals, have lost none of their power today. All those who struggle within and against capitalist society will find here a treasure of new insights and weapons.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Michael Hardt, co-author of \u003ci\u003eAssembly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In the early 1970s I read Tronti religiously.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Silvia Federici, author of \u003ci\u003eCaliban and the Witch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eWorkers and Capital\u003c\/i\u003e is not a mere period curiosity, but a fundamental work, like Lukacs’ \u003ci\u003eHistory and Class Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e, and—dare I say?—one that now finds a new relevance in the hyper-Fordism of contemporary China.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Mike Davis, author of \u003ci\u003eCity of Quartz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Tronti was the first and one of the most original and influential theoreticians of the historical moment of the radical left in post-war Italy and it is essential to have his works accessible in English.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Fredric Jameson, author of \u003ci\u003ePostmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Tronti’s \u003ci\u003eWorkers and Capital\u003c\/i\u003e remains a solid basis for researching this new capitalist terrain.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Antonio Negri, author (with Michael Hardt) of \u003ci\u003eEmpire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Those who, like Marx, believe that the critique of political economy realises its true potential when it becomes an instrument in the class struggle will find this book an indispensable weapon.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Asad Haider, author of \u003ci\u003eMistaken Identity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Epoch-making.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Alberto Toscano, author of \u003ci\u003eFanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A message in a bottle finally getting ashore.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tim Christiaens, \u003ci\u003eMarx \u0026amp; Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMario Tronti\u003c\/b\u003e is a philosopher and political scientist best known for co-founding the journals \u003ci\u003eQuaderni Rossi\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eClasse Operaia\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301822877925,"sku":"NP9781788730396","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/workers-and-capital-lbe-isbn-9781788730396","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}