Beginning in the 1950s, and with growing momentum throughout the
1960s and 1970s, Detroit and Turin were both sites of significant
political and social upheaval. This comparative and transnational
study examines the political and theoretical developments that
emerged in these two "motor cities" among activist workers and
political militants during these decades. Workers and activists in
both locations formed a common understandings of the realities of
capitalism and developed similar critiques and strategies of
opposition. Interaction between individuals and groups in Detroit
and Turin - through personal correspondence, the exchange and
translation of publications, and personal visits - furthered this
common understanding. At the same time, the protesters merged,
often unconsciously, the local, national, and transnational
dimension of their movements. Their political activism blended
agitation in the factory and in the neighborhoods; it involved
opposition to car manufacturers as well as labor unions; and it
comprised ordinary people who had never been involved before in
industrial disputes as well as veterans of working-class militancy.
It was also characterized by the interplay of race, ethnicity, and
regional provenience as well as class, and as this analysis shows,
differences between Detroit and Turin with respect to social
identity points towards new insights into the unrest during this
period.
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