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In a sense what Rawick (1969) is arguing for is an attempt to discover the unrecorded or difficult to excavate figures of class struggle, perhaps analogous to the distortion created by unreported figures in official crime statistics referred to as ‘the dark figure’ by Coleman and Moynihan (1996), if it is possible to shed the negative connotations.
The workers’ inquiry from Trotskyism to Operaismo: A political methodology for investigating the workplace | Ephemeral Journal Jamie Woodcock 2025
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