Far from working-class stereotypes of manhood, some logistics workers develop a “respectable” popular style of masculinity. But the intensification of the labor process makes this a difficult feature to maintain and often captured them in these stereotypes. This article has been written up using the results of my PhD, which I defended last year (Rivoal, …
WOLG special issue by IBB is OUT NOW!
We are pleased to announce that is now available Logistical Gazes: spaces, labour and struggles in global capitalism, a Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Special Issue edited by Into the Black Box. Here you can buy the issue and read two free articles! https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/workorgalaboglob.13.1.0009?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Below you find the table of contents and here our introduction: …
Introduction to a Special Issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation
We publish the draft of our collective introduction to Logistical Gazes, the special issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation we edited and now available. WOLG special issue by IBB is OUT NOW! Logistics is currently emerging, with increasing intensity, as a key disruptive paradigm for interpreting the changes that distinguish contemporary capitalism. Despite its …
IBB Panel at Historical Materialism Athens 2019
Into the Black Box will participate to Historical Materialism conference in Athens next 2-5 of May. We prepared a specific panel on logistics in global world with 5 speeches by IBB members. Here we propose you the introduction to the panel and the abstracts. 5 May 2019 10:30/12:15 Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences B3 …
Logistical Territories // Lo Squaderno #51
A new Issue of Lo Squaderno review has been published. Into the Black Box edited it together with Cristina Mattiucci. The Issue could be freely read and downloaded here. Moreover we publish below the table of contents and the editorial we wrote. Enjoy and Share it! TABLE OF CONTENTS a cura di / dossier coordonné …
A Dissonant Italian Symphony. Struggles and Grassroots Organizing in an Extended European Choke-point
The nature of capital presupposes that it travels through the different phases of circulation not as it does in the mind, where one concept turns into the next at the speed of thought, in no time, but rather as situations which are separate in time. It must spend some time as a chrysalis before it …