Marxist Reading Group - We Want Everything
Schedule
Thu Sep 19 2024 at 06:00 pm
Location
Orca Books Co-op | Olympia, WA
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September’s Marxist Reading Group title is Nanni Balestrini’s novel WE WANT EVERYTHING, a fictionalized account of Italy’s “Hot Autumn” of 1969, told from the perspective of a factory worker who gets swept into the uprising.Book discussion is scheduled for THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH @ 6PM in store!
About the book:
It was 1969, and temperatures were rising across the factories of the north as workers demanded better pay and conditions. Soon, discontent would erupt in what became known as Italy's Hot Autumn. A young worker from the impoverished south arrives at Fiat's Mirafiori factory in Turin, where his darker complexion begins to fade from the fourteen-hour workdays in sweltering industrial heat. His bosses try to withhold his wages. Our cynical, dry-witted narrator will not bend to their will. "I want everything, everything that's owed to me," he tells them. "Nothing more and nothing less, because you don't mess with me."
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Where is it happening?
Orca Books Co-op, 315 5th Ave SE,Olympia,WA,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
