Der Staat im Empire

Theoreticians on workerism have viewed the state during the unauthorised strikes and dramatic social clashes in Italy during the 1960s and 70s as an organisation in which big business invested its interests in order to prevent workers engaging in living labour.
With Antonio Negri conceiving and theorising on the term “the social worker”, the theory of the state was broadened to include society as a whole, which he, along with Michael Hardt in their work “Empire”, eventually developed into a post-workerist appraisal of sovereignty and capitalist globalisation.
The contributions in this volume study early (post-)workerist theory and re-examine the questions discussed since the publication of “Empire” on the relationship between Foucault’s concept of biopower and immaterial labour in the context of systems theory and research into global governance.