Ours to master and to own : workers' control from the commune to the present / Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ness, Immanuel.

Azzellini, Dario, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Works councils--History.

Works councils.

Labor unions--History.

Labor unions.

History.

Industrial relations--History.

Industrial relations.

Physical Description:

x, 443 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books, 2011.

Summary:

From the dawning of the industrial epoch, wage earners have organized themselves into unions, fought bitter strikes, and gone so far as to challenge the very premises of the system by creating institutions of democratic self-management aimed at controlling production without bosses. With specific examples drawn from every corner of the globe and every period of modern history, this pathbreaking volume comprehensively traces this often underappreciated historical tradition. Ripe with lessons drawn from historical and contemporary struggles for workers' control, Ours to Master and to Own is essential reading for those struggling to create a new world from the ashes of the old. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Workers' Councils: Historical Overview and Theoretical Debate

1 Workers' Control and Revolution / Victor Wallis Wallis, Victor 10

2 Workers' Councils in Europe: A Century of Experience / Donny Gluckstein Gluckstein, Donny 32

3 The Red Mole: Workers' Councils as a Means of Revolutionary Transformation / Sheila Cohen Cohen, Sheila 48

4 The Political Form at Last Discovered: Workers' Councils against the Capitalist State / Alberto R. Bonnet Bonnet, Alberto R. 66

Part II Workers' Councils and Self-Administration in Revolution: Early Twentieth Century

5 From Unionism to Workers' Councils: The Revolutionary Shop Stewards in Germany, 1914-1918 / Ralf Hoffrogge Hoffrogge, Ralf 84

6 The Factory Committee Movement in the Russian Revolution / David Mandel Mandel, David 104

7 Factory Councils in Turin, 1919-1920: "The Sole and Authentic Social Representatives of the Proletarian Class" / Pietro Di Paola Paola, Pietro Di 130

8 Workers'Democracy in the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1937 / Andy Durgan Durgan, Andy 148

Part III Workers' Control under State Socialism

9 Yugoslavia: Workers' Self-Management as State Paradigm / Goran Music Music, Goran 172

10 Give Us Back Our Factories! Between Resisting Exploitation and the Struggle for Workers' Power in Poland, 1944-1981 / Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski Kowalewski, Zbigniew Marcin 191

Part IV Anticolonial Struggle, Democratic Revolution, and Workers' Control

11 Workers'Control in Java, Indonesia, 1945-1946 / Jafar Suryomenggolo Suryomenggolo, Jafar 210

12 From Workers' Self-Management to State Bureaucratic Control: Autogestion in Algeria / Samuel J. Southgate Southgate, Samuel J. 228

13 The Limits and Possibilities of Workers' Control within the State: Mendoza, Argentina, 1973 / Gabriela Scodeller Scodeller, Gabriela 248

14 Workers' Councils in Portugal, 1974-1975 / Peter Robinson Robinson, Peter 263

Part V Workers' Control against Capitalist Restructuring in the Twentieth Century

15 Workers' Control and the Politics of Factory Occupation: Britain, 1970s / Alan Tuckman Tuckman, Alan 284

16 Workers' Direct Action and Factory Control in the United States / Immanuel Ness Ness, Immanuel 302

17 "Hot Autumn": Italy's Factory Councils and Autonomous Workers' Assemblies, 1970s / Patrick Cuninghame Cuninghame, Patrick 322

18 Recipe for Anarchy: British Columbia's Telephone Workers' Occupation of 1981 / Elaine Bernard Bernard, Elaine 338

Part VI Workers' Control, 1990-2010

19 Workers' Control in India's Communist-Ruled State: Labor Struggles and Trade Unions in West Bengal / Arup Kumar Sen Sen, Arup Kumar 356

20 Argentinean Worker-Taken Factories: Trajectories of Workers' Control under the Economic Crisis / Marina Kabat Kabat, Marina 365

21 Workers'Control under Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution / Dario Azzellini Azzellini, Dario 382

22 Brazilian Recovered Factories: The Constraints of Workers' Control / Maurício Sardá de Faria Faria, Maurício Sardá de, Henrique T. Nov'es Nov'es, Henrique T. 400.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781608461196

160846119X

OCLC:

669754969