Visions of Emancipation: The Italian Workers' Movement Since 1945

?Visions of Emancipation fills a real need. Here, in well-written and well-researched form, is social history nourished by empathy for people, events, and organizations. Barkan has used the library well, but the book bespeaks a vitality beyond the academic. There are pages full of wisdom about women in the work force and the Italian women's movement. And the volume concludes with number of fascinating recorded interviews with Turinese workers. Readers will find Visions of Emancipation an engaged left book, but still better, a left book without the slightest sectarian axe to grind.?-Dissent Spring