An alternative labour history : worker control and workplace democracy / edited by Dario Azzellini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Azzellini, Dario, 1967- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor movement--History.

Labor movement.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 347 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Zed Books, 2015.

Summary:

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. 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Council Democracy, or the End of the Political / Alex Demirovic Demirovic, Alex 31

2 Contemporary Crisis and Workers' Control / Dario Azzellini Azzellini, Dario 67

3 Workers' Assemblies: New Formations in the Organization of Labor and the Struggle against Capitalism / Elise Danielle Thorburn Thorburn, Elise Danielle 100

4 The Austrian Revolution of 1918-1919 and Working Class Autonomy / Peter Haumer Haumer, Peter 120

5 Chile: Worker Self-organization and Cordones Industriales under the Allende Government (1970-1973) / Franek Gaudichaud Gaudichaud, Franek 157

6 "Production Control" or "Factory Soviet"? Workers' Control in Japan / Kimiyasu Irie Irie, Kimiyasu 182

7 The Factory Commissions in Brazil and the 1964 Coup d'État / Henrique T. Novaes Novaes, Henrique T., Maurício S. de Faria Faria, Maurício S. de 215

8 Self-management, Workers' Control and Resistance against Crisis and Neoliberal Counter-reforms in Mexico / Patrick Cuninghame Cuninghame, Patrick 242

9 Collective Self-management and Social Classes: The Case of Enterprises Recovered by Their Workers in Uruguay / Anabel Rieiro Rieiro, Anabel 273

10 Self-managing the Commons in Contemporary Greece / Alexandros Kioupkiolis Kioupkiolis, Alexandros, Theodoros Karyotis Karyotis, Theodoros 298.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783601547

178360154X

OCLC:

892455083