<b>The classic text of Italian workerism available in English for the first time</b><br><br><i>Workers and Capital</i> is universally recognised as the most important work produced by <i>operaismo</i>, a current of political thought emerging in the 1960s that revolutionised the institutional and extra-parliamentary Left in Italy and beyond. In the decade after its first publication in 1966, the debates over <i>Workers and Capital</i> produced new methods of analysis and a new vocabulary for thousands of militants, helping to inform the new forms of workplace, youth, and community struggle. Concepts such as “neocapitalism,” “class composition,” “mass-worker,” “the plan of capital,” “workers’ inquiry” and “co-research” became established as part of the Italian Left’s political lexicon. Five decades since it was first published, <i>Workers and Capital</i> remains a key text in the history of the internatio