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An Alternative Labour History - Worker Control and Workplace Democracy (Paperback)
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An Alternative Labour History - Worker Control and Workplace Democracy (Paperback)
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The global financial crisis has led to a new shop-floor militancy.
Radical forms of protest and new workers' takeovers have sprung up
all over the globe. In the US, Republic Windows and Doors started
production under worker control in January 2013. Later that year
workers in Greece took over and managed a hotel, a hospital, a
newspaper, a TV channel and a factory. The dominant revolutionary
left has viewed workers' control as part of a system necessary
during a transition to socialism. Yet most socialist and communist
parties have neglected to promote workers' control as it challenges
the centrality of parties and it is in this spirit that trade
unions, operating through the institutional frameworks of
government, have held a monopoly over labor history. Tracing Marx's
writings on the Paris Commune through council communism,
anarcho-syndicalism, Italian operaismo, and other "heretical" left
currents, An Alternative Labour History uncovers the practices and
intentions of historical and contemporary autonomous workers'
movements that until now have been largely obscured. It shows that
by bringing permanence and predictability to their workplaces,
workers can stabilize their communities through expressions of
participatory democracy. And, as history has repeatedly shown,
workers have always had the capacity to run their enterprises on
their own.
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