An Alternative Labour History
Subtitle: worker control and workplace democracy
By: edited by Dario Azzellini
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9781783601561; 9781783601578; 9781783601554; 9781783601547
Subjects: Labor movement; History; Politics & government; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Labor & Industrial Relations; Arbeiterbewegung; Marxismus; Arbeiterselbstverwaltung
Description: A global history of worker control - challenging capital, the state and the trade union leaders.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Front cover; About the editor; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Workers' control and self-administration as emancipatory and anti-capitalist praxis; Limits and contradictions of the cooperative model; Workers' autonomy versus unions; Workers' control in revolution and state socialism; Workers' control and the emancipation of humanity; Building a workers' economy; The content of the collection; Note; References; 1 Council Democracy, or the End of the Political; The failure of liberal democracy.; title: Marx's understanding of the political and his assessment of the communeSome aspects of the debate around council democracy; Final comments; References; 2 Contemporary Crisis and Workers' Control; Recuperated factories in France; Italy: Officine Zero and Ri-Maflow; Greece: Vio. Me.; title: from industrial glue to organic cleaners; Turkey: Kazova Tekstil; title: high-quality sweaters for the people; Egypt: steel and ceramics; Chicago: New Era Windows; Common challenges for workers' recuperations; Common features of workers' recuperations; Notes; References.; title: 3 Workers' Assemblies: New Formations in the Organization of Labor and the Struggle against CapitalismNotes; References; 4 The Austrian Revolution of 1918-1919 and Working Class Autonomy; 12 November 1918; World War I and the labor movement; World War I and the movement of workers; From workers' committees to the first councils: the January General Strike of 1918; On the councils that the January General Strike produced; From establishment of a bourgeois democracy to the social revolutionary phase; The soldiers' councils; The FRSI and the council question.; title: Social Democracy and the Austrian RevolutionSpring and summer 1919: once again, the revolution is just around the corner; An evolving dual power; Swan song; Notes; References; 5 Chile: Worker Self-organization and Cordones Industriales under the Allende Government (1970-1973); 1000 days that shook the world; The Chilean Red October: worker self-organization and popular constituent power; The cordones industriales and the fate of the left; Towards the coup: "the workers were demanding weapons"; Notes; Acknowledgements; References.; title: 6 "Production Control" or "Factory Soviet"? Workers' Control in JapanIntroduction; The rise of post-war labor movement; General conditions of production control; Consolidation of workers' control; The people's court: the struggle of Mitsubishi Bibai Coal Mine Union; The limits and possibilities of production control: communists, labor union and worker control; Notes; References; 7 The Factory Commissions in Brazil and the 1964 Coup d'État; Introduction; Rise of the workers' and intellectuals' struggles; Rural struggles; Reforms, coup and repression.