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<p>In the 1970s, a slogan became popular in Italy: «Zero Work, Full Income, All Production to Automation». It expressed the hope of a future free from manual labour that would be performed by new informatics technologies Since the beginning of industrialisation, the invention of new technology has triggered various reactions and analyses in industrialised societies: on the one hand, technology has been seen as a threat to human labour; on the other hand, technology has generated expectations of a better future without work. My contribution analyses how some political and intellectual actors in the world of work in Italy have reacted to the prospects of labour automation and the increasing application of information technology to the production process and how the new technology combined with the transformation of the workindividual relationship in the 1970s and 1980s to produce different discourses on the new possibilities and the risks of the new informatised world(s) of work. In my contribution I focus on the Italian case. It is an interesting case study to analyse the discourses on labour and technology «Since the Boom» (Doering Manteuffel/Raphael, <i>Nach dem Boom Perspektiven auf die Zeitgeschichte seit 1970,</i> 2008). In the 1970s, some political and social movements in Italy, such as theAutonomia Operaia or the movment of 1977 saw the automation of labour as a means of liberation of life from work (Falciola <i>Il movimento del 1977 in Italia,</i> 2015). Moreover, critical reflections such as those of Post-operaism have developed in Italy, interpreting technological change as a revolutionary possibility of emancipation from labour (Wright <i>Storming heaven. Class composition and struggle in Italian autonomist marxism,</i> 2002).</p>

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«Zero Work, Full Income, All Production to Automation»: Work Automation and Liberation from Work in Social Movements in Italy During the 1970s

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    2025年4月18日

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  • Jacopo Ciammariconi

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In the 1970s, a slogan became popular in Italy: «Zero Work, Full Income, All Production to Automation». It expressed the hope of a future free from manual labour that would be performed by new informatics technologies Since the beginning of industrialisation, the invention of new technology has triggered various reactions and analyses in industrialised societies: on the one hand, technology has been seen as a threat to human labour; on the other hand, technology has generated expectations of a better future without work. My contribution analyses how some political and intellectual actors in the world of work in Italy have reacted to the prospects of labour automation and the increasing application of information technology to the production process and how the new technology combined with the transformation of the workindividual relationship in the 1970s and 1980s to produce different discourses on the new possibilities and the risks of the new informatised world(s) of work. In my contribution I focus on the Italian case. It is an interesting case study to analyse the discourses on labour and technology «Since the Boom» (Doering Manteuffel/Raphael, Nach dem Boom Perspektiven auf die Zeitgeschichte seit 1970, 2008). In the 1970s, some political and social movements in Italy, such as theAutonomia Operaia or the movment of 1977 saw the automation of labour as a means of liberation of life from work (Falciola Il movimento del 1977 in Italia, 2015). Moreover, critical reflections such as those of Post-operaism have developed in Italy, interpreting technological change as a revolutionary possibility of emancipation from labour (Wright Storming heaven. Class composition and struggle in Italian autonomist marxism, 2002).