During our last meeting, when we noted that John Watson had traveled from Detroit to Italy to meet with unionists there, I wondered that he might have, indeed must have, met with the Autonomist movement leaders who were active there in the same year, and namely with Antonio Negri -- who soon became notorious in Italy after he was falsely accused of being a terrorist "mastermind". Today Negri is more famous as the author of Empire. Here's a link to an hour-long documentary film about Negri. It shows a lot of background about the Italian revolutionary union movement, coincidently also often in automobile factories.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-635735684063417950
I haven't found any direct reference to Watson meeting Negri, but I'd be very interested in seeing any documents referring to their meeting!
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