An Alternative Labour History: Worker Control and Workplace Democracy

ISBN-13: 9781783601554 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 360 str.

Dario Azzellini

Opis

The global financial crisis has led to radical forms of social protest and worker takeovers all over the globe. Tracing Marx s writings on the Paris Commune through council communism, anarcho-syndicalism, Italian operaismo, and other autonomous social movements, this book uncovers the intentions and practices of workers struggles that continue in force today. Addressing timely and essential questions, Dario Azzellini shows how bringing permanence and predictability to workplaces can stabilize communities and secure autonomy."

Spis treści

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction - Dario Azzellini 1. Council Democracy, or the End of the Political - Alex Demirovic´ 2. Contemporary Crisis and Workers' Control - Dario Azzellini 3. Workers' Assemblies: New Formations in the Organization of Labor and the Struggle against Capitalism - Elise Danielle Thorburn 4. The Austrian Revolution of 1918-1919 and Working Class Autonomy - Peter Haumer 5. Chile: Worker Self-organization and Cordones Industriales under the Allende Government (1970-1973) - Franck Gaudichaud 6. ‘Production Control’ or ‘Factory Soviet’? Workers' Control in Japan - Kimiyasu Irie 7. The Factory Commissions in Brazil and the 1964 Coup d'État - Henrique T. Novaes and Maurício S. de Faria 8. Self-management, Workers' Control and Resistance against Crisis and Neoliberal Counter-reforms in Mexico - Patrick Cuninghame 9. Collective Self-management and Social Classes: The Case of Enterprises Recovered by Their Workers in Uruguay - Anabel Rieiro 10. Self-managing the Commons in Contemporary Greece - Alexandros Kioupkiolis and Theodoros Karyotis Index