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The classic text of Italian workerism available in English for the first time. Workers and Capital is universally recognised as the most important work produced by operaismo, 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 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 struggles. Concepts like ´neocapitalism´, ´class composition´, ´mass-worker´, ´the plan of capital´, ´workers´ inquiry´ and ´co-research´ became an established part of the Italian Left´s political lexicon. Over five decades since it was first published, Workers and Capital has been a key text in the history of the international workers´ movement, yet only now appears in English translation for the first time. Far from 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.

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