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Introduction: Print, document work, and class politics -- What are militants? Ceto politico and ceto operaio -- Texts have bodies too : towards a materialist approach to document work and genre -- Genre, document work and militancy amongst the operaisti : some preliminary reflections -- The Fiat workers' enquiry of 1960-61 : setting the scene -- The Fiat workers' enquiry of 1960-61 : what actually happened? -- The meaning of the workers' enquiry and co-research in the early 1960s -- Cultural production in the Italy of the 'economic miracle' -- The essay and its discontents -- The role of the review in classical workerism -- The book trade and academia -- The emergence of the Assemblea operai e studenti -- The Assemblea's document work -- A short addendum on pamphlets -- Debating organisation in print : Potop 1969-71 -- Other elements of Potere Operaio's genre repertoire -- Two brief interludes : 'in praise of illegal work' and 'sotto la Mole' -- A gamble that failed : Potere Operaio del lunedì -- Internal communication concerning Potere Operaio's press and organisation -- 'The measures taken' -- Position papers and discussion documents -- The best re(a)d paper in Autonomia? -- Senza Tregua--a brief and unhappy existence? -- 'A paper that speaks, a radio that writes' : i Volsci and the impact of radio on the printed word -- 'The firebrands of Porto Marghera' -- 'There is no housework in Marx' -- Conclusion: Print, document work, and class politics.

Introduction: Print, document work, and class politics -- What are militants? Ceto politico and ceto operaio -- Texts have bodies too : towards a materialist approach to document work and genre -- Genre, document work and militancy amongst the operaisti : some preliminary reflections -- The Fiat workers' enquiry of 1960-61 : setting the scene -- The Fiat workers' enquiry of 1960-61 : what actually happened? -- The meaning of the workers' enquiry and co-research in the early 1960s -- Cultural production in the Italy of the 'economic miracle' -- The essay and its discontents -- The role of the review in classical workerism -- The book trade and academia -- The emergence of the Assemblea operai e studenti -- The Assemblea's document work -- A short addendum on pamphlets -- Debating organisation in print : Potop 1969-71 -- Other elements of Potere Operaio's genre repertoire -- Two brief interludes : 'in praise of illegal work' and 'sotto la Mole' -- A gamble that failed : Potere Operaio del lunedì -- Internal communication concerning Potere Operaio's press and organisation -- 'The measures taken' -- Position papers and discussion documents -- The best re(a)d paper in Autonomia? -- Senza Tregua--a brief and unhappy existence? -- 'A paper that speaks, a radio that writes' : i Volsci and the impact of radio on the printed word -- 'The firebrands of Porto Marghera' -- 'There is no housework in Marx' -- Conclusion: Print, document work, and class politics.

Around fifty years ago, much of the world experienced a new cycle of mass social unrest. In their wake, the movements of that time have left a mass of records and other documents (typically leaflets, journals, newspapers, posters and bulletins). Today, many of these materials are curated by community-based archives that continue to identify in some manner both with those movements and their successors. But what might these materials be able to tell us about the 'document work' (to use Ciaran Trace's useful concept) that originally led to their creation and use – and, in a broader sense, the experiences of the movement participants who utilised them as integral components of their political engagement? This paper will explore the meaning of document work within the practices of members of Potere Operaio [Potop], one of the most influential of the revolutionary groups formed in Italy during the late 1960s, before concluding with some brief reflections as to the implications of this for the present day work of radical community archives

Around fifty years ago, much of the world experienced a new cycle of mass social unrest. In their wake, the movements of that time have left a mass of records and other documents (typically leaflets, journals, newspapers, posters and bulletins). Today, many of these materials are curated by community-based archives that continue to identify in some manner both with those movements and their successors. But what might these materials be able to tell us about the 'document work' (to use Ciaran Trace's useful concept) that originally led to their creation and use – and, in a broader sense, the experiences of the movement participants who utilised them as integral components of their political engagement? This paper will explore the meaning of document work within the practices of members of Potere Operaio [Potop], one of the most influential of the revolutionary groups formed in Italy during the late 1960s, before concluding with some brief reflections as to the implications of this for the present day work of radical community archives

Borio, Pozzi and Roggero (eds.) 2005 have characterised
operaismo
as 'neither a homogenous doctrinaire corpus, nor a unitary political subject', but rather 'multiple pathways with their roots in a common theoretical matrix'. Starting with a diagram drawn up by Primo Moroni in the 1980s, this paper will explore a number of the ways in which those paths might be mapped out, in terms of key categories and projects, above all for the years that follow 1979.

A review essay on books by (1) Franco Berardi, La nefasta utopia di Potere operaio. Lavoro tecnica movimento nel laboratorio politico del Sessantotto italiano ([The Ominous Utopia of Workers' Power. Technical Labor Movement in the Political Laboratory of the Italian Sessantotto] Rome: Castelvecchi, 1998); & (2) Guido Borio, Francesca Pozzi, & Gigi Roggero, Futuro anteriore. Dai 'Quaderni Rossi' ai movimenti globali: ricchezze e limiti dell'operaismo italiano ([Future Front. From 'Quaderni Rossi' to Global Movements. Riches and Limits of Italian Workerism] Rome: Derive Approdi, 2002).