Workers' Control

Workers' Control (also known as self-management, labor management, autogestión, workers' self-management, industrial democracy or democratic management) refers to the taking over capitalist workplaces by their workers and creating a system of management based around a rejection of hierarchy, common ownership and democracy. It is a subject of keen interest to many left-libertarians, notably anarcho-syndicalists.
== Famous Examples by State ==
=== Algeria ===
=== Argentina ===
=== Australia ===
Aboriginal Australians arguably practiced degrees of workers' control before colonisation by the British for thousands of years around farming, construction of villages, irrigation, dams and fish traps.Bruce Pascoe (2018) Dark Emu In Northern Queensland from 1908 to 1920, the IWW and the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union organized a degree of workers' control among meat industry workers.https://sa.amieu.asn.au/about-us/history/ From 1971 to 1990, Australia saw a massive wave of workers' control corresponding with strikes all over the country. Including:
* 1971: Harco Work-In
* 1972: Clutha Development Mine Work-In
* 1972: Sydney Opera House Work-In
* 1972: Whyalla Glove Factory Work-In
* 1974: Wyong Plaza Work-In
* 1975: Nymboida Mine Work-In
* 1975: Coal Cliff Work-In
* 1978: Sanyo Television Factory Work-In
* 1979: Union Carbide Work-In
* 1980: Department of Social Security Work-In
* 1990: Melbourne Tramworkers' Strike
=== Bolivia ===
=== Brazil ===
=== Canada ===
=== China ===
Workers' Control had been practiced in both the Guangzhou Commune and Shinmin Autonomous Zone.
=== France ===
=== Germany ===
=== Greece ===
=== India ===
Workers' Control has been common in West Bengal, where feminist workers took control of a tea plantation in response to abuses from management in 1974. In Calcutta, factory workers took over their workplace in 1989.
=== Indonesia ===
=== Italy ===
Workers' Control famously took place in the Bienno Rosso.
=== Mexico ===
Workers' Control has been practiced in the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities.
=== Poland ===
=== Portugal ===
=== Russia ===
=== Serbia ===
From 2003 to 2004 in the city of Zrenjanin, workers battled a private security force after they had taken control of Jugoremedija, a pharmaceutical factory. They were given ownership and control of the factory in 2006.Andrej Grubacic (2010) Don't Mourn: Balkanize! Essays After Yugoslavia
=== Spain ===
Workers' Control was practiced in Revolutionary Spain.
=== Syria ===
Workers' Control has been practiced in Rojava and parts of Free Syria.
=== Ukraine ===
Workers' Control was practiced in the Free Territory of Ukraine.
=== United States of America ===
=== United Kingdom ===
=== Venezuela ===
=== Yugoslavia ===
== References ==