Ferruccio Gambino

W. E. B. Du Bois and the Proletariat in Black Reconstruction - Ferruccio Gambino

Italian autonomist Ferruccio Gambino on sociologist and historian W. E. B. Du Bois and the working class in the Black Reconstruction following the Great Depression.

The conception and working out of W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 belonged to the period of the Great Depression. In reflecting on the events of the early 1930s, Du Bois found the motivation to write his major work.

Workers' struggles and the development of Ford in Britain

Cover of Workers' Struggles and the Development of Ford in Britain.

This essay by Ferruccio Gambino first appeared in the book Operai e Stato (Feltrinelli, 1972). It was translated into English and published by Red Notes in 1976 as their first pamphlet. The PDF file is in 2 parts, both about 4MB.

A critique of the Fordism of the Regulation School

Ford assembly line.

A Critique of the Fordism of the Regulation School

Ferruccio Gambino

translated by Ed Emery (in: Common Sense No. 19, June 1996)

Introduction

The transgression of a laborer: Malcom X in the wilderness of America

Italian Autonomist Ferruccio Gambino's analysis of the development of Malcolm X's thought, from prison and the factory through to the Nation of Islam, and its deviation from the traditional state-allocated path of ethnic leadership.

[i]The Transgression of a Laborer: Malcolm X in the Wilderness of America[/i]

[i]Ferruccio Gambino (from RADICAL HISTORY, Winter 1993)[/i]