Lotta e autorganizzazione. Formazione della classe e mobilitazioni nel comparto della logistica

The concept of “class struggle” which characterized the mobilizations of the workers’ movement until the 1970s is no longer recurrent to de-scribe workplace conflicts. This happened because capital managed to “reshape” the working class through “class segmentation” operations, introducing new mechanisms for dividing the workforce into the pro-duction system. The use of outsourcing and subcontracting with com-panies that hire on a fixed-term basis has produced a fragmentation among workers which has effects on the organization of the working class. Is it possible, in this context, to imagine new possibilities for working class formation? In the paper, through the voices of workers, porters and drivers members of the inter-branch grassroots union SI Cobas who work in companies and cooperatives in the logistics sector in Naples and Campania, we will investigate the extent and meanings that workplace conflict takes on today.