On Method
If we sustain the distinction – as we try to throughout this book – between “politics” (understood as the battle for power) and the experiences in which proces…
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Aims to understand the struggles that define our conjuncture, critically reconstruct radical history, and reinvent Marxism for our time.
Living in Freedom: Notes on Colectivo Situaciones and MTD Solano’s Hypothesis 891
Today, when the term “militant research” is regularly used in academic articles and texts, it is worth returning to the question of the purpose and practice of…
Robert Linhart and the Circuitous Paths of Inquiry
A dossier tracing Robert Linhart's approach and commitment to militant research through new translations of texts spanning the late 1970s to the 2000s. The pos…
Taylorism Between the Two Wars: Some Problems (1983)
In the concrete organization of labor existing in the field, we encounter a combination of different modes of workplace organization developed up to the presen…
Evolution of the Labor Process and Class Struggles (1978)
If we want to understand something, I think there’s nothing to do but go see it oneself and to patiently collect the most direct knowledge possible. Go see the…
The Labor Process and the Division of the Working Class (1978)
The development of outside firms permanently employed across the cluster effectively transforms the division of labor in a thoroughgoing manner, more or less i…
The Time-Sick Hospital (2005)
In these very difficult workplace situations, all the agents interviewed indeed stressed the importance of the group. The existence of a genuinely solidaristic…
“Technology Transfer” and Its Contradictions: Some Aspects of Algerian Industrialization (1977)
The concrete functioning of those industries which have been "offshored" or set up by "transferred technology” in Third World countries has hardly been studied…
The Evolution of the Organization of Labor (1998)
In the present context, what we are seeing does not really resemble the establishment of innovative organizations breaking with the Taylorist logic, but much m…
Introduction to Robert Linhart: Concrete Analyses in the Spider’s Web of Production
Consistent with his rejection of a romanticization of the working class, Linhart insists that workers’ knowledge is fragmented and partial, if also profound. T…