Rethinking workers self-activity and mobilization: solidarity as the foundational moment

Abstract

Maurizio Atzeni is Lecturer in Labour and Industrial Relations at Loughborough University School of Business and Economics, United Kingdom, and a Research Fellow at Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales (CEIL/CONICET), The book consists in an important contribution to the discussions about working class’ mobilizations and the alternatives and possibilities that they create. Atzeni’s approach ‘rehabilitates a vision of collective action as a structurally determined and grassroots-based expression of workers’ power’ [13] by assuming that the contradictions within the capitalist labour process are enough condition for workers’ collective action.