{"product_id":"workers-and-the-world-isbn-9781804297827","title":"Workers and the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eWe all need jobs to live, yet capitalist work is destroying the planet. What are the possibilities for convergence between workplace and community struggles?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are \u003ci\u003ein\u003c\/i\u003e the ecological crisis, and not just as victims of an environmental devastation that is unequally distributed along intersecting hierarchies of class, ‘race’ and gender. We are part of the crisis because, in our society, the vast majority of us rely on work to pay for the things we need to survive. This means we also depend on the infinite growth of commodity production that defines capitalism and drives the ecological crisis. Nonetheless, workers’ insertion in capital accumulation also has an antagonistic face, rooted in their very separation from the means of production. Therefore, labour is also a crucial collective actor \u003ci\u003eagainst\u003c\/i\u003e the ecological crisis.This book explores the relationship between workers and nature by bringing Italian\u003ci\u003e operaismo\u003c\/i\u003e into a dialogue with a broad range of traditions, from dependency theory to ecofeminism. Drawing on sustained research in both the Global South – Tunisia and Chile – and the Global North – the UK and Italy – it tackles four timely issues in relation to the ecological crisis: automation and deindustrialisation, employment precarity, imperialism and war, and social reproduction.Preface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1-Introduction: Workers and the ecological crisis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnvironmental justice and labour\u003cbr\u003eCapitalist noxiousness\u003cbr\u003eFrom noxious deindustrialisation to working-class environmentalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2-Automation and noxious deindustrialisation: The political composition of capital\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe prime mover of the ecological crisis\u003cbr\u003eDeindustrial decline with industrial noxiousness\u003cbr\u003eGrangemouth, UK: Glowing fires, vanishing jobs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e3-The surplus working class: Precarity in environmental degradation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe pincer movement\u003cbr\u003eDispossession by accumulation\u003cbr\u003eKerkennah, Tunisia: Oil, gas, and blue crabs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e4-The international division of labour and noxiousness: Wage, profit and rent in the ecological transition from above\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe mysteries of the Trinity formula\u003cbr\u003eThe ‘green’ plan of capital\u003cbr\u003eVentanas, Chile: Noxious deindustrialisation in extractivism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e5-Against noxiousness: Working-class environmentalism from the hidden abodes of production and reproduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ecological turn in class composition analysis\u003cbr\u003eOperaismo versus capitalist noxiousness\u003cbr\u003eMarghera vs Marghera, Italy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e6-Conclusion: The ecological transition from below\u003c\/b\u003e\"Lorenzo Feltrin shows us that there are many alternatives to the authoritarian rule of fossil capital, but also to capital as a social relation, since workers essentially reproduce capital. Organised workers and local communities are at the core of struggles for environmental justice and an ecological transition from below. Workers and the World shows the relevance of operaismo. A must read!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ulrich Brand, University of Vienna and co-author of the books \u003ci\u003eImperial Mode of Living\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCapitalism at the Limit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLorenzo Feltrin\u003c\/b\u003e is a researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He grew up in Treviso, close to Venice and its industrial hub, Porto Marghera. In Treviso, he took part in the occupations that established the Django Social Centre. He is active in international social movement networks mobilising on labour and environmental issues, such as the Ex GKN Florence’s autoworkers struggle for a just transition.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233865937125,"sku":"NP9781804297827","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781804297827.jpg?v=1767744535","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/workers-and-the-world-isbn-9781804297827","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}