New issue of ephemera on ‘The politics of worker’s inquiry’ released...
The Politics of Worker’s Inquiry
ephemera: theory & politics in organization
Volume 14, Number 3 (August 2014)
Edited by Joanna Figiel, Stevphen Shukaitis, and Abe Walker
http://www.ephemerajournal.org/issue/politics-workers-inquiry
This issue brings together a series of commentaries, interventions and
projects centred on the theme of workers’ inquiry. Workers’ inquiry is a
practice of knowledge production that seeks to understand the changing
composition of labour and its potential for revolutionary social
transformation. It is a practice of turning the tools of the social
sciences into weapons of class struggle. It also seeks to map the
continuing imposition of the class relation, not as a disinterested
investigation, but rather to deepen and intensify social and political
antagonisms.
Workers’ inquiry developed in a context marked by rapid
industrialization, mass migration and the use of industrial sociology to
discipline the working class. It was formulated within autonomist
movements as a sort of parallel sociology based on a radical re-reading
of Marx and Weber against the politics of the communist party and the
unions. The process of inquiry took the contradictions of the labour
process as a starting point and sought to draw out such political
antagonisms into the formation of new radical subjectivities. With this
issue we seek to rethink workers’ inquiry as a practice and perspective,
in order to understand and catalyse emergent moments of political
composition.
Including essays from Fabrizio Fasulo, Frederick H. Pitts, Christopher
Wellbrook, Anna Curcio, Colectivo Situaciones, Evangelinidis Angelos,
Lazaris Dimitris, Jennifer M. Murray, Michał Kozłowski, Bianca
Elzenbaumer, Caterina Giuliani, Alan W. Moore, T.L. Cowan, Jasmine
Rault, Jamie Woodcock, and Gigi Roggero; an interview with Jon McKenzie;
and book reviews by Craig Willse, Stephen Parliament, Christian De Cock,
Mathias Skrutkowski, and Orla McGarry.
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