Ilaria Favretto is a cultural and intellectual historian of modern and contemporary Europe with three main areas of expertise: protest and social movements; memory and identity; and left-wing parties' political ideas, cultures, and practices in the post-1945 period. She obtained her first degree in Milan and then a PhD at Queen Mary College (University of London). After a post-doctoral fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford, she worked at the University of Milan and then Kingston University (London).

...a remarkably informative and insightful book...will transform our understanding of a period of Italian history filled with industrial conflict... an important counterbalance to the institutional focus of much Italian labour history... the book succeeds in providing an empirically based account of the variety of protest actions in industrial conflict, as well as making the case that such conflict is somewhat different to what we often encounter in the historiography: it is more worker-led than union-led, embracing both the premodern and the modern, and open to the influence of political protest in other parts of the world.

• Introduction 1: 'Red' and Catholic Protest Cultures in the 1940s and 1950s 2: Jibes in the Jakes: Protest at a Time of Acquiescence 3: 1960s: The Resurgence of Industrial Action between Tradition and Innovation 4: Marching with Donkeys: Folk Traditions, Charivari, and the 1960s and 1970s Protests 5: Sit-Ins, Protest Camps, Factory Occupations, and Self-Management 6: Refusal to Work, Absenteeism, and Sabotage 7: Reinventing Marches 8: Striking Women: Gender, Union Politics, and Protest 9: The Post-1980s Retreat: Factory Workers 'Go to the Roof' Conclusion

Ilaria Favretto is a cultural and intellectual historian of modern and contemporary Europe with three main areas of expertise: protest and social movements; memory and identity; and left-wing parties' political ideas, cultures, and practices in the post-1945 period. She obtained her first degree in Milan and then a PhD at Queen Mary College (University of London). After a post-doctoral fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford, she worked at the University of Milan and then Kingston University (London).

...a remarkably informative and insightful book...will transform our understanding of a period of Italian history filled with industrial conflict... an important counterbalance to the institutional focus of much Italian labour history... the book succeeds in providing an empirically based account of the variety of protest actions in industrial conflict, as well as making the case that such conflict is somewhat different to what we often encounter in the historiography: it is more worker-led than union-led, embracing both the premodern and the modern, and open to the influence of political protest in other parts of the world.

• Introduction 1: 'Red' and Catholic Protest Cultures in the 1940s and 1950s 2: Jibes in the Jakes: Protest at a Time of Acquiescence 3: 1960s: The Resurgence of Industrial Action between Tradition and Innovation 4: Marching with Donkeys: Folk Traditions, Charivari, and the 1960s and 1970s Protests 5: Sit-Ins, Protest Camps, Factory Occupations, and Self-Management 6: Refusal to Work, Absenteeism, and Sabotage 7: Reinventing Marches 8: Striking Women: Gender, Union Politics, and Protest 9: The Post-1980s Retreat: Factory Workers 'Go to the Roof' Conclusion

Ilaria Favretto is a cultural and intellectual historian of modern and contemporary Europe with three main areas of expertise: protest and social movements; memory and identity; and left-wing parties' political ideas, cultures, and practices in the post-1945 period. She obtained her first degree in Milan and then a PhD at Queen Mary College (University of London). After a post-doctoral fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford, she worked at the University of Milan and then Kingston University (London).

...a remarkably informative and insightful book...will transform our understanding of a period of Italian history filled with industrial conflict... an important counterbalance to the institutional focus of much Italian labour history... the book succeeds in providing an empirically based account of the variety of protest actions in industrial conflict, as well as making the case that such conflict is somewhat different to what we often encounter in the historiography: it is more worker-led than union-led, embracing both the premodern and the modern, and open to the influence of political protest in other parts of the world.

• Introduction 1: 'Red' and Catholic Protest Cultures in the 1940s and 1950s 2: Jibes in the Jakes: Protest at a Time of Acquiescence 3: 1960s: The Resurgence of Industrial Action between Tradition and Innovation 4: Marching with Donkeys: Folk Traditions, Charivari, and the 1960s and 1970s Protests 5: Sit-Ins, Protest Camps, Factory Occupations, and Self-Management 6: Refusal to Work, Absenteeism, and Sabotage 7: Reinventing Marches 8: Striking Women: Gender, Union Politics, and Protest 9: The Post-1980s Retreat: Factory Workers 'Go to the Roof' Conclusion