How Workers Took Power

Author : Sandra Bloodworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 192292704X

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How Workers Took Power by Sandra Bloodworth Pdf

The Russian Revolution of 1917 thrilled millions around the world and showed that socialism was possible. Sandra Bloodworth brings to life the struggle of the workers, soldiers and peasants against their oppressors. She shows how the vast masses of working people learnt, through the experience of fighting for their demands, that if they did not definitively defeat the capitalist class, the only alternative would be counter-revolution and military dictatorship. They learnt that they could run society themselves, through the revolutionary soviets, and that they would have to do so in order to end the world war, to win bread for starving families and to liberate the enslaved peasantry. This book is an essential introduction to one of the greatest moments in human history. Bloodworth dispels the persistent myths propagated by the revolution's opponents - that it was a bloody coup, or that Stalin's dictatorship was the only possible outcome. She instead reveals the revolution as an inspiring experiment in human liberation, full of lessons for anyone fighting for a better world today.

Author : Tom Bramble,Mick Armstrong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0648760359

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The Fight for Workers' Power: Revolution and Counter-revolution in the 20th Century by Tom Bramble,Mick Armstrong Pdf

After the 1917 Russian Revolution, revolutionary upsurges erupted around the world: workers power was on the agenda. This book recounts the rise and fall of the Communist International and the lessons it holds for today.

Author : Paul Vernadsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Communism
ISBN : 190963932X

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The Russian Revolution by Paul Vernadsky Pdf

Author : Craig Heron
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0802080820

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The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925 by Craig Heron Pdf

A clear, concise portrait of one of the most dramatic moments in the history of working-class life and class relations generally in Canada - the upsurge of working-class protest at the end of the First World War.

Author : Maurice Brinton
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Collective settlements
ISBN : 0919618693

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The Bolsheviks & Workers' Control, 1917-1921 by Maurice Brinton Pdf

Brinton undertakes an innovative analysis of the Russian revolution and its implications for workers' autonomy. As he demonstrates, an appreciation of the historical precedent can generate fresh insights into contemporary problems.

Author : Karl Marx
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781434469267

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Wage-Labour and Capital by Karl Marx Pdf

This volume contains an English translation of Karl Marx's influential essay.

Author : Grinnell College. Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations, and Human Rights
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1987-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521349710

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The Workers' Revolution in Russia, 1917 by Grinnell College. Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations, and Human Rights Pdf

An analysis of Bolshevik relations with the Russian working population.

Author : Robert Ovetz
Publisher : Wildcat
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Labor movement
ISBN : 0745340849

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Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle by Robert Ovetz Pdf

A major new study looking at the catalysing role of workers' inquiries in the rebirth of a global labour movement from below

Author : William Bigelow,Norman Diamond
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780853457534

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Power in Our Hands by William Bigelow,Norman Diamond Pdf

This celebrated book provides entertaining, easy-to-use lesson plans for teaching labor history. "Most school teachers are drowned in paper, but here is one book I want to recommend to them. It is a way of getting American teenagers not just interested, but excited and passionate about their history - modern American labor history." - Pete Seeger

Author : Edward Webster,Lynford Dor
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781529218800

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Recasting Workers' Power by Edward Webster,Lynford Dor Pdf

Much of the debate on the future of work has focused on responses to technological trends in the Global North, with little evidence on how these trends are impacting work and workers in the Global South. Drawing on a rich selection of ethnographic studies of precarious work in Africa, this innovative book discusses how globalisation and digitalisation are drivers for structural change and examines their implications for labour. Bringing together global labour studies and inequality studies, it explores the role of digital technology in new business models, and ways in which digitalisation can be harnessed for counter mobilisation by the new worker.

Author : Peter Binns,Tony Cliff,Chris Harman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014616232

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Russia by Peter Binns,Tony Cliff,Chris Harman Pdf

From Workers' State to State Capitalism.

Author : V. I. Lenin
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781804292877

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The State and Revolution by V. I. Lenin Pdf

Lenin's most important and controversial theoretical text Lenin’s booklet The State and Revolution struck the world of Marxist theory like a lightning bolt. Written in the months running up to the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin turned the traditional socialist concept of the state on its head, arguing for the need to smash the organs of the bourgeois state to create a ‘semi-state’ of soviets, or workers’ councils, in which ordinary people would take on the functions of the state machine in a new and radically democratic manner. This new edition includes a substantial introduction by renowned theorist Antonio Negri, who argues for the continued relevance of these ideas.

Author : Lewis H. Siegelbaum,Ronald Grigor Suny
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501718144

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Making Workers Soviet by Lewis H. Siegelbaum,Ronald Grigor Suny Pdf

Drawing on such diverse sources as propaganda art, the trade union press, workers' memoirs, and materials in recently opened Soviet archives, this is the first book to examine the shifting identity of the "working class" in late tsarist and early Soviet societies. New essays by fifteen leading historians show how Russian workers responded to attempts to make them Soviet. Initial chapters consider power relations and working-class identity in imperial Russia. The effects of the revolutionary upheavals of 1917 to 1921 on labor relations among printers and coal miners are then discussed. Addressing subsequent decades, other essays document the situation of cotton workers and white-collar workers embroiled within the ambiguities of the New Economic Policy or challenge the appropriateness of "class" analysis for the Stalin era. Additional chapters reconstruct workers' responses to the Great Purges and trace the significance of class in visual and verbal discourse. Making Workers Soviet will be central to the current rethinking of Soviet history and of class formation in noncapitalist settings.

Author : Diane P. Koenker,Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1780393806

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Revelations from the Russian Archives by Diane P. Koenker,Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Ralph Stayer
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633691384

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How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead by Ralph Stayer Pdf

Are your employees like a synchronized "V" of geese in flight-sharing goals and taking turns leading? Or are they more like a herd of buffalo-blindly following you and standing around awaiting instructions? If they're like buffalo, their passivity and lack of initiative could doom your company. In How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead, you'll discover how to transform buffalo into geese-by reshaping organizational systems and redefining employees' expectations about what it takes to succeed. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.