'More Work! Less Pay!'
Phil Edwards
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Hardback. In the mid-1970s, a long wave of contentious radicalism swept through Italy: 'Proletarian youth', 'metropolitan Indians', 'the area of Autonomy'.. For the first time in English, Phil Edwards has told the story of a unique and fascinating group of political movements, and of their disastrous engagement with the mainstream Left. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Tables. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJPL; JFFE; JPWQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 524.
In the mid-1970s, a long wave of contentious radicalism swept through Italy. ‘Proletarian youth’, ‘metropolitan Indians’, ‘the area of Autonomy’: a shifting galaxy of groups and movements practised new forms of activism. Factories and universities were occupied; rent and utility payments were withheld; neo-Fascists and drug pushers were attacked on sight.
The movements were at once creative and brutal, intransigent and playful. A particular target for mockery was the parliamentary Left, and above all the Italian Communist Party (PCI). An earlier wave of radical activism had culminated in the Hot Autumn of 1969; then, the PCI had managed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719078736
SKU
V9780719078736
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Ref
99-15
About Phil Edwards
Phil Edwards is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Manchester -- .
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