Paul Ginsborg, A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943–1988 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
Ginsborg, History of Contemporary Italy, 42.
On the mass worker, see Steve Wright, “The Historiography of the Mass Worker,” in Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism (Pluto Press, 2017).
See the dossier “The Young Mario Tronti,” ed. Andrew Anastasi, Viewpoint Magazine →.
Silvia Federici and Mario Montano, “Theses on the Mass Worker and Social Capital” (1972), libcom.org →.
See Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Women and the Subversion of the Community: A Mariarosa Dalla Costa Reader (PM Press, 2019).
The feminist movement “directed its antagonistic critique beyond the role of the State to the male-dominated Italian left, including the radical workerist left … The most symbolic and public moment occurred in Rome on December 6th, 1977, when the male stewards of Lotta Continua and of the Comitato Autonomo di Centocelle attacked a feminist demonstration and its vindication of a woman’s right to separate from a man.” Enda Brophy, preface to Giovanna Franca Dalla Costa, The Work of Love (Autonomedia, 2008), 8.
See “The Generation of Year Nine: Youth Revolt and the Movement of ’77,” libcom.org →.
