ZEROWORK
The journal, with background and supplementary materials


This webpage is currently under construction. Materials will be added as they are prepared. The purpose of this webpage is to make available the content of the two published issues of Zerowork, a journal published in the 1970s, the content of the unpublished third issue and a variety of background notes and materials designed to facilitate the situating of the journal, its theoretical and political tendencies, within the times. The creation and publication of Zerowork, a political intervention into contemporary discussions of the crisis of capitalism and its relationship to working class struggle, consisted of a synthesis of several lines of Marxist theory and strategic thinking. Supplementary materials have been chosen either because they were influential in the formation of the perspectives contained in the journal or because they were produced by the editors as part of their political work in the same period.

General Introduction

Background: Genesis of Zerowork #1

Historical Sketch

Forthcoming

Supplemental (Historical) Materials

Editor's Note
Material from the American tradition of the Johnson-Forest Tendency and Facing Reality: forthcoming
Marerial from the European tradition, especially the Italian area of autonomia: forthcoming
Mariarosa Dalla Costa, The Subversion of the Community, (1972) [pdf version] [MSWord version]
Selma James, Sex, Race and Class, Bristol, Falling Wall Press, 1975.
Silvia Federici, Wages Against Housework, Falling Wall Press, 1975.
The Wages for Students Students, Wages for Students, (1975), [pdf of original], [MSWord version].
Cover of first issue of the journal Zerowork, black 
and white lettering on orange background

Zerowork: Political Materials #1, December 1975

Front Material, [pdf of original], [MSWord version]
Table of Contents, [pdf of original], [MSWord version]
Editor's Note
Introduction, [pdf of original] [MSWord version]
Paolo Carpignano, "U.S. Class Composition in the Sixities", [pdf of original], [MSWord version], [Italian version]
Mario Montano, "Notes on the International Crisis", [pdf of original], [MSWord version]
Peter Linebaugh and Bruno Ramirez, "Crisis in the Auto Sector", [pdf of original], [MSWord version].
Peter Taylor, "The Sons of Bitches Just Won't Work," Postal Workers Against the State", [pdf of original], [MSWord version].
William Cleaver, "Wildcats in the Appalacian Coal Fields", [pdf of original], [MSWord version].
George Caffentzis, "Throwing Away the Ladder: The Universities in Crisis", [pdf of original], [MSWord version].
Bruno Ramirez, "The Working Class Struggle Against the Crisis: Self-Reduction of Prices in Italy", [pdf of original], [MSWord version].

Background: From Zerowork #1 to Zerowork #2

Historical Sketch

Forthcoming

Supplemental (Historical) Materials

We Want Everything”: An Introduction to the Income Without Work Committee, Brooklyn, New York, 1976. [pdf of original pamphlet], [MSWord version].
Harry Cleaver, "The Internationalization of Capital and the Mode of Production in Agriculture," Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 11, No. 13, March 27, 1976, [pdf of original]. [MSWord version].
Cover of second issue of the journal Zerowork, black 
and white lettering on green background

Zerowork: Political Materials #2, Fall 1977

Front Material, [pdf of original], [MSWord version]
Table of Contents, [pdf of original], [MSWord version]
Introduction, [pdf of original] [MSWord version]
Harry Cleaver, "Food, Famine and the International Crisis", [pdf of original], [MSWord Version]
Philip Mattera, "National Liberation, Socialism and the Struggle Against Work: The Case of Vietnam, [pdf of original], [MSWord version].
Christian Marazzi, "Money in the World Crisis: The New Basis of Capitalist Power", [pdf of original], [MSWord version].
Donna Demac & Philip Mattera, "Developing and Underdeveloping New York: The 'Fiscal Crisis' and the Imposition of Austerity", [pdf of original], [MS Word Version]
Letters, [pdf of original], [MSWord Version].
Back Cover.

Background: From Zerowork #2 to Zerowork #3

Forthcoming

Zerowork: Political Materials #3, Special Issue on Immigration, Never published

Introduction
Mariarosa Dalla Costa, "Reproduction and Immigration", 1974,, [pdf version], [MSWord version].
Bruno Ramirez, "Immigration, Class Composition, and the Crisis of the Labor Market in Canada"
Peter Bell & Harry Cleaver, "1970's: Decade of Crisis"
Estevan T. Flores, A Call to Action: An Analysis of Our Struggles and Alternatives to Carter's Immigration Program, Pamphlet, 1977.
Mogniss, "The Meditations of Young Immigrant Workers"
Yann Moulier and Pierre Ewenzyck, "Immigration: The Blockage of Mobility in the Mediterranean Basin," 1978.
Karl Heinz Roth, "The German Model: Against Mass Autonomy"
Box Insert: "Next Stop 1984: Computers, Identification Cards and Immigration Control"
Steve Heim, Notes on New Wave Music in the Crisis
Statement on April 7 Arrests in Italy