WEBINAR Pluto Press Book Webinar Series: How We Organize! 11 December 2020, “Global class struggle & workers inquiries” Anna Curcio, Gifford Hartman, and Robert Ovetz Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives, edited by Robert Ovetz and published by Pluto Press, collects together case studies from over a dozen contributors, looking at workers’ movements in China, Mexico, the US, South Africa, Turkey, Argentina, Italy, India and the UK. Workers’ inquiries are one of the most innovative tools for worker organizing today. This webinar will provide an introduction to workers inquiries and how to conduct them. Speakers: Anna Curcio is a militant scholar in the field of autonomous marxism. She published internationally on the conflicts and transformations of labor in the relationship with race and gender. Among her publications in English: Challenging Italian Racism (eds. with Miguel Mellino), Darkmatter Journal (Special issue 2010); The Common and The Forms of the Commune (eds. with Ceren Özselçuk), Rethinking Marxism (Special issue 2010, Vol. 22, n.3); Practicing militant inquiry: Composition, strike and betting in the logistics workers struggles in Italy, Ephemera Vol 14 (3), 2014; Paths of Racism, Flows of Labor: Nation-State Formation, Capitalism and the Metamorphosis of Racism in Italy, Viewpoint Magazine (2014); The revolution in Logistic in Azzelini, D. & Kraft M. eds., New Forms of Workers Organization and Struggles: Autonomous Labor Responses in Time of Crisis (Brill 2015); Logistic is the Logic of Capital (with Gigi Roggero), Viewpoint Magazine (2018). Gifford Hartman is a member of the Global Supply Chain Study/Research Group and is an adult educator, labor trainer, working class historian and has been a rank-and-file militant in the ILWU and IWW. He has helped organize workshops, conferences, and trainings on international cross-sectoral working class solidarity in a dozen locations worldwide, from the Bay Area to Europe to the Pearl River Delta of China. Robert Ovetz, Ph.D. is a lecturer in Political Science at San José State University in California and a member of the California Faculty Association. He is the author of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 (Brill 2018 and Haymarket 2019) and Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives(Pluto Press, 2020). He is an associate editor of The Journal of Labor and Society. — Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggleis part of Wildcat, a book series published by Pluto Press that uncovers the radical militancy which characterises international workers struggles, both contemporary and historical. Looking at diverse topics including proletarianisation and class formation, mass production, gender, affective and reproductive labour, syndicalism and independent unions, and labour and Leftist social and political movements, it is the most comprehensive exploration into workers’ organisation being developed today. To get 20% off Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggleand all other books in the Wildcat series, please visit the Pluto Press website, add the book(s) to the cart and use the discount code ORGANIZE20 at the checkout. — The webinar series is kindly sponsored by Railroad Workers United.
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