Sergio Bologna

participated in Potere Operaio and Primo Maggio. He now works as a freelance consultant on transportation and logistics.

May '68 in France (1968)

May ’68 in France (1968)

European capital is today entering an institutional crisis. If the freedom of being able to vote communist is no longer enough for the young workers as compensation for their being exploited, which tools and which ideologies will capital use in order to control it, given that political democracy and the welfare state no longer function?

Workerism Beyond Fordism: On the Lineage of Italian Workerism

Workerism Beyond Fordism: On the Lineage of Italian Workerism

The system of thought that has come to be called “Italian workerism” is not an organic system. Nor is it contained in any fundamental text, any sort of Bible. It is instead composed of different theoretical contributions from some militant intellectuals who founded the journals Quaderni Rossi and Classe Operaia.

Inside Logistics: Organization, Work, Distinctions

Inside Logistics: Organization, Work, Distinctions

Logistics can never be understood from outside the warehouse, only by coming inside and looking at the techniques employed, the equipment and the organization of work does one understand if we find ourselves faced with something that belongs to the new economy, in the real sense of the term, or that resembles the sweatshops of Bangladesh. There is therefore no organization of standardized labor with specific figures, because every commodity sector has its specificity in industrial logistics, and because in distribution logistics, not all goods are subject to the same treatment (think only of perishable products, the cold chain or dangerous and toxic products). Speaking in the generic sense of “logistics” does not lead us anywhere.