More work! Less pay! rebellion and repression in Italy, 1972-77 /
Phil Edwards.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2009.
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
9780719078736; 9780719078736; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; List of fi gures; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Hot Autumn and after: a cycle of contention reconsidered; 3 From Resistance to Historic Compromise: the politics of the PCI; 4 From Feltrinelli to Moro: a second cycle of contention; 5 'Repudiate all forms of intolerance': how the movements were framed; 6 A cycle and its aftermath; 7 Do you remember revolution?; 8 Social movements and cycles of contention: theoretical appendix; References; Index.
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 H.