Weight of the Printed Word

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"In The Weight of the Printed Word, Steve Wright explores the creation and use of documents as a key dimension in the activities of the Italian workerists during the 1960s and 1970s. From leaflets and newspapers to books, internal documents and workers' enquiries, the operaisti deployed a wide variety of printed materials in their efforts to organise amongst new subjectivities of mass rebellion. As Wright demonstrates, the practice of working with print was a central part of what it meant to be a workerist or autonomist militant during these years: one that throws light both on the meaning of political engagement, as well as the challenges posed by the use of technologies of communication and by emergent social subjects"--

subjects: Political science,  Autonomism,  History,  Labor Press,  Underground press publications,  Radicalism and the press,  Printing,  Political aspects,  Working class,  Political activity,  Historical materialism,  Politics and government