Workers Control

Author : Immanuel Ness,Dario Azzellini
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781608461196

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Ours to Master and to Own by Immanuel Ness,Dario Azzellini Pdf

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. Immanuel Ness is professor of political science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and edits WorkingUSA. Dario Azzellini is a writer, documentary director, and political scientist at Johannes Kepler University in Linz.

Author : Carmen Sirianni
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789607277

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Workers Control and Socialist Democracy by Carmen Sirianni Pdf

Recent scholarship has rediscovered the genuinely mass character of the Bolshevik-led revolution that toppled Russian absolutism in 1917. In this major study, Carmen Sirianni undertakes a comprehensive study of the forms of popular power that emerged in the course of the struggle against Tsarist, and their destiny in the formative years of the new Soviet state. He successively discusses the factory committee movement, the attitudes of the trade unions and the left parties towards workers control, the unfolding of dual power, the tole of the peasantry, and the organization of labour and industry in the civil war. The developing theme of these chapters - the unsettled, often antagonistic relationship between working-class and peasant initiatives and demands and Bolshevik political and economic conceptions - is subjected to theoretical examination in the second part of the book. Here Sirianni analyses the particular constitution of Lenin's Marxism, and discerns in it a 'productivist evolutionism' which, he maintains, adversely affected the Bolsheviks' appreciation of working-class self-organization both in industry and in the exercise of political power, and vitiated their perception of the rural masses. Finally, Sirianni sets Russian policy and experience in its international context, considering the different, but also limited, views of Gramsci and Pannekoek, and the 'councilist' movements of Western Europe. He concludes with a reflection on the subsequent course of the revolutionary state and the options available to its leaders, as the defeat of the Left Opposition and then of Bukharin prepared the triumph of Stalinism. Workers Control and Socialist Democracy unites historical, political and theoretical judgement to make a fundamental contribution to our understanding, both of the Russian Revolution and of central unresolved issues of socialism in the twentieth century.

Author : David Montgomery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521280060

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Workers' Control in America by David Montgomery Pdf

A collection of essays on workers' efforts in the 19th and 20th centuries to assert control over the processes of production in US. It describes the development of management techniques and includes discussions of various worker and union responses to unemployment.

Author : Asef Bayat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:49015000288341

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Workers and Revolution in Iran by Asef Bayat Pdf

Based on a thesis, focuses on the workers of Iran and their experience of workers' control during the revolutionary period following the insurrection of February 1979. Considers the emergence of particular forms of work and workers' organizations, "shuras" or factory committees in the industrial workplaces; attempts to evaluate the experience and demise of the "shuras". Discusses the international dimension of the working class movement.

Author : Arthur Scargill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Employees' representation in management
ISBN : CORNELL:31924001913056

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The Myth of Workers' Control by Arthur Scargill Pdf

UK. Pamphlet arguing that workers participation and workers control are misconceived strategies that divert workers and activists from effective industrial and political struggle for a socialist society - presents reasons for revival in the 1960s and 1970s, attitudes of the labour political party, the tuc trade union federation and the institute for workers' control, and roles in public enterprise and private enterprise. References.

Author : Arthur Scargill,Peggy Kahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0785531696

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The Myth of Workers Control by Arthur Scargill,Peggy Kahn Pdf

Author : Ernie Roberts
Publisher : Routledge Library Editions: Employee Ownership and Economic Democracy
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138309818

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Workers' Control by Ernie Roberts Pdf

This book, first published in 1973, sets out the reason why workers' control is the necessary alternative to the present system. It describes the struggle of the workers through their organizations to achieve a greater control over their lives; and it discusses the practical steps which need to be taken to achieve complete workers' control. Practicality is the keynote of this book, which starts from the reality of the 1970's and progresses towards the essence of socialism - workers' control.

Author : Maurice Brinton
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Gerry Hunnius,G. David Garson,John Case
Publisher : New York : Random House
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015005890770

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Workers' Control by Gerry Hunnius,G. David Garson,John Case Pdf

Compilation of articles on workers self management and workers participation, with particular reference to Canada and USA - discusses the problems inherent in assembly line work, the changing role of trade unions and collective bargaining, describes the current levels of self management achieved in Sweden, Germany, Federal Republic, Israel and Yugoslavia, and includes articles on possible future trends towards social change through workers control. Bibliography pp. 486 to 488, references and statistical tables.

Author : Ralph Stayer
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,5 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.

Author : Gregory K. Dow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521818532

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Governing the Firm by Gregory K. Dow Pdf

Most large firms are controlled by shareholders, who choose the board of directors and can replace the firms management. In rare instances, however, control over the firm rests with the workforce. Many explanations for the rarity of workers' control have been offered, but there have been few attempts to assess these hypotheses in a systematic way. This book draws upon economic theory, statistical evidence, and case studies to frame an explanation. The fundamental idea is that labor is inalienable, while capital can be freely transferred from one person to another. This implies that worker controlled firms typically face financing problems, encounter collective choice dilemmas, and have difficulty creating markets for control positions within the firm. Together these factors can account for much of what is known about the incidence, behavior, and design of worker- controlled firms. A policy proposal to encourage employee buyouts is developed in the concluding chapter. Gregory L. Dow is Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. He previously taught at the University of Alberta and Yale University, and has served as a visiting professor at the University of New South Wales, the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. Professor Dow is Associate Editor on the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and has published numerous articles on labor-managed firms and other topics in economic theory in leading journals such as the American Economic Review and the Journal of Political Economy.

Author : Marcelo Vieta
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004268951

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Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina by Marcelo Vieta Pdf

In Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina, Marcelo Vieta homes in on the history, consolidation, and socio-political dimensions of Argentina’s empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores (worker-recuperated enterprises), a worker-led company occupation movement that has surged since the turn-of-the-millennium and the country’s neo-liberal crisis.

Author : Mel van Elteren
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476664996

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Managerial Control of American Workers by Mel van Elteren Pdf

Today, surveillance and regulation of employees are pervasive at all levels (except the highest) in a wide variety of American workplaces. Digital information systems have become important tools of managerial control. The constraints built into these systems by so-called "business process reengineering" are a continuation of scientific management principles developed during the late 19th century. Additional means of control have included employment-based "welfare capitalism," and human relations and corporate culture approaches. This book provides fresh insight into various practices of managerial control from the 1880s to the present and their effects on work organization and quality, and worker skill requirements. The author highlights current developments--including those focused on highly skilled knowledge workers--accounting for enhanced automation, offshoring and related changes in the production and distribution of goods and services.

Author : Hugh Scanlon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Industrial organization
ISBN : UVA:X000707683

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The Way Forward for Workers' Control by Hugh Scanlon Pdf

Author : Ken Coates,Tony Topham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Collective bargaining
ISBN : UCLA:L0050621192

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The New Unionism by Ken Coates,Tony Topham Pdf