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The picture in the puzzle.

Authors :
Franzosi, Roberto
Source :
Puzzle of Strikes: Class & State Strategies in Postwar Italy; 1995, Vol. 1 Issue 2, p343-377, 35p
Publication Year :
1995

Abstract

The organisation arises as product of the struggle … organisations … are … born from the mass strike … from the whirlwind and the storm, out of the fire and glow of the mass strike and the street fighting rise again, like Venus from the foam, fresh, young, powerful, buoyant trade unions. … In the midst of the struggle the work of organisation is being more widely extended. Class struggle, which is itself structurally limited and selected by various social structures, simultaneously reshapes those structures. … Class struggle is intrinsically a process of transformation of structures, and thus the very process which sets limits on class struggle is at the same time transformed by the struggles so limited. … Organizational capacities are objects of class struggle. … The organizational capacity of the working class to engage in struggle is itself transformed by class struggle. In history, as elsewhere, the causes cannot be assumed. They are to be looked for. UNEXPECTED FINDINGS, ONE MORE TIME: CLASS CONFLICT AS THE INDEPENDENTVARIABLE Just when we thought that we had it all wrapped up, with a pat solution for the temporal dynamics of Italian strikes in the postwar period, the reversal of the causal reading at the end of Chapter 8 (strikes as the cause, rather than the effect, of economic, organizational, institutional, and political factors) has brought in a new twist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISBNs :
9780521031233
Volume :
1
Issue :
2
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Puzzle of Strikes: Class & State Strategies in Postwar Italy
Publication Type :
Book
Accession number :
77215249
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511571534.011