Zerowork

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This webpage makes available the content of the two published issues of Zerowork, a journal published in the 1970s, the content of the unpublished third issue and a variety of background essays and materials designed to facilitate the situating of the journal, its theoretical and political tendencies, within the times. The creation and publication of Zerowork, a political intervention into contemporary discussions of the crisis of capitalism and its relationship to working class struggle, consisted of a synthesis of several lines of Marxist theory and strategic thinking. Supplementary materials have been chosen either because they were influential in the formation of the perspectives contained in the journal or because they were produced by the editors as part of their political work in the same period. This webpage undergoes periodic modification. Materials are added as they are prepared. The background essays are modified as research proceeds and in light of feedback from readers. (Date of the most recent changes:September 10, 2014)"Yet do not miss the moral, my good readers.For Saint Marx says that all that's written well,Is written down some truth to tell.Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still."Apologies to ChaucerGeneral IntroductionVery brief intoduction to these web pages about Zerowork - the idea, the collective and the journal - including a few words about the people involved, the historical context of their work and the motivations for the creation of these pages.Historical Sketch: The results of research into the background of the formation of the original Zerowork Collective and the work that led to the crafting and publication of the first issue of the journal. That background includes 1) earlier political and theoretical work on both sides of the Atlantic both known and unknown to the various editors that informed, directly and indirectly, their approach to analyzing the crisis in class relations of the early 1970s, and 2) brief biographies of the individuals involved that trace their lives and how they came to know each other and work together.Material from the American tradition of the Johnson-Forest Tendency and Facing RealityPaul Romano & Ria Stone, The American Worker, The Johnson-Forest Tendency, 1947. Third Printing by Bewick Editions, 1972.Martin Glaberman, Punching Out, 1952, Reprinted in 1973 by Bewick Editions, Detroit, Michigan.[pdf of original], [MSWord version].Grace C. Lee, Pierre Chaulieu and J. R. Johnson, Facing Reality: The New Society...Where to look for it, How to bring it closer, A statement for our time, a Correspondence book, Detroit: Correspondence Publishing Company, 1958. Reprinted by Bewick Editions in 1974 and by Charles H. Kerr (Sixties Series) in 2006.Martin Glaberman, "Be His Payment High or Low": The American Working Class of the Sixties", International Socialism, Number 21, Summer 1965, reprinted by Facing Reality in pamphlet form in 1966 with a second edition in 1975 by New England Free Press and Bewick Editions. [pdf of pamphlet], [MSWord version].George Rawick, From Sundown to Sunup: The Making of the Black Community, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972.Material from the European tradition, especially the Italian area of autonomiaSergio Bologna,"Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers Councils Movement" translated by Bruno Ramirez; first published in Telos No. 13, Fall 1972, pp. 140-147, later published in Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE), The Labour Process & Class Strategies, CSE Pamphlet no.1, stage 1, 1976. Originally in Sergio Bologna et al, Operai e stato, Materiali Marxisti, Milano: Feltrinelli Editore, 1972, plp. 13-46. [pdf of original], [MSWord version].Mario Tronti, "Social Capital", Telos, #17, Fall 1973, pp. 98-121. Originally "Il piano del capitale" in Quaderni Rossi, No. 3, 1963, pp. 44-73. Reprinted in Mario Tronti, Operai e capitale, Torino: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1966.Mario Tronti, Struggle Against Labor (1966), translated and published in Radical America, Vol. 6, Number 1, May-June 1972, pp. 22-25. Original: "14. Lotta contro il lavoro", in Mario Tronti, Operai e capitale, Torino: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1966, pp. 60-85.George Rawick, "Working Class Self-Activity", Radical America, Vol. III, No. 2, March-April 1969."Italy: New Tactics and Organization", Radical America, Vol. V, No. 5, September-October 1971.Guido Baldi,"Theses on Mass Worker and Social Capital", Radical America, Vol. 6, Number 1, May-June 1972, pp. 3-21. [pdf of original], [MSWord version].Material associated with the Wages for Housework Movement.Women and the Subversion of the Community, (1972) [pdf version][MSWord version][Peter Taylor], Working and Not-Working at the Post Office, Toronto, 1974. [pdf of original] [MSWord version]"Wages for Students", POWER OF WOMEN, Journal of the Power of Women Collective, Vol. I, No. 2, July/August 1974, pp. 6, 13. [pdf of original], [MSWord version].Selma James, Sex, Race and Class, Bristol: Falling Wall Press, 1975.Silvia Federici, Wages Against Housework, Bristol: Falling Wall Press, 1975.The Wages for Students Students, Wages for Students, (1975),[pdf of original],[MSWord version]. This pamphlet has recently (2014) been translated into Spanish and published in Chile by vaticanochico.[Spanish version]Historical Sketch: The results of research into the evolution of the Zerowork collective from the publication of Zerowork #1 to that of Zerowork #2. This background includes the interwoven intellectual and political history of the editors, their relations with others and their internal debates. During the period covered by this essay, some left the editorial collective and others joined. The internal debates eventually became serious enough to provoke a split. As a result, the second issue of the journal was produced by a recomposed group and benefited from new input. Included here are brief biographies of the new individuals who joined the collective.

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