Women comprised forty percent of Turin’s industrial working class

Evidence

Of the Turin working class, some 40 per cent was made up of women, and these were in the vanguard of all the major proletarian upheavals which shook the city between 1912 and 1920. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 57

Categorization

• XREF: Counters the implicit gendering of ‘the proletariat’ in much early Marxist theory; relevant to later readings on raced and gendered labor.

Related

• Turin’s textile women workers led the 1917 wave of industrial struggles (similarity 0.83)