Practical workers’ organizations embraced study as a path to effective action

Evidence

Th e insight on the theorypractice connection— between “knowledge and eff ective action”— was spreading: “It is signifi cant, indeed, of the growing belief in the value of study that movements and organizations whose main purpose is a practical one have come more and more in recent years to encourage it among their members by organizing lectures, classes and reading circles or by supplying them with books” (ibid., 39– 40). L’Ordine nuovo movement in Italy of those years would develop these thoughts to their full revolutionary consequences (as we shall see in chapter 4). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 303

Categorization

• XREF: Theory-practice unity in British labor education anticipates Gramsci’s L’Ordine nuovo — connects the British and Italian threads of this book’s interwar story. — connects to: Work mediates between natural and social orders as an educational principle; Workplace organizing remains indispensable despite everyday-life alternatives — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 255; Structuring experience as shared practice prevents it from silencing others. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 170

Broader Connections

• Work mediates between natural and social orders as an educational principle #expands (0.72)
• Workplace organizing remains indispensable despite everyday-life alternatives #corroborates (0.70) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 255
• Structuring experience as shared practice prevents it from silencing others. #expands (0.70) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 170