Chapter 4 explores the movement for industrial councils that emerged in the Clydeside region of Britain and reached its peak in Turin, Italy. Th e eff orts of these rankandfi le workers took on a clearcut revolutionary form in opposition to both capital accumulation and the state— and pushed capitalism to the brink. In this space, a class of experts found their most useful tool: a new rationale for austerity, one that became the narrative of the threatened and powerful.

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 459