Author: Assistant Professor Dario Azzellini
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781783601554
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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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. The dominant revolutionary left has viewed workers' control as part of a system necessary during a transition to socialism. Yet most socialist and communist parties have neglected to promote workers' control as it challenges the centrality of parties and it is in this spirit that trade unions, operating through the institutional frameworks of government, have held a monopoly over labor history. 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.
Author: George Douglas Howard Cole
Publisher:
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Category : Labor disputes
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Author: Vladimir Alekseevich Vinogradov
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Category : Comités d'entreprise - URSS
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Author: Robert Alan Dahl
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520058774
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Tocqueville pessimistically predicted that liberty and equality would be incompatible ideas. Robert Dahl, author of the classic A Preface to Democratic Theory, explores this alleged conflict, particularly in modern American society where differences in ownership and control of corporate enterprises create inequalities in resources among Americans that in turn generate inequality among them as citizens. Arguing that Americans have misconceived the relation between democracy, private property, and the economic order, the author contends that we can achieve a society of real democracy and political equality without sacrificing liberty by extending democratic principles into the economic order. Although enterprise control by workers violates many conventional political and ideological assumptions of corporate capitalism as well as of state socialism. Dahl presents an empirically informed and philosophically acute defense of "workplace democracy." He argues, in the light of experiences here and abroad, that an economic system of worker-owned and worker-controlled enterprises could provide a much better foundation for democracy, political equality, and liberty than does our present system of corporate capitalism.
Author: G D H Cole
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 113688579X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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This book represents an important stage in the development of an indigenous theory. The argument is presented with the special qualities of cogency and perception which have given the author a lasting influence within the labour movement.
Author: George Douglas Howard Cole
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Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Carmen Sirianni
Author: Carmen Sirianni
Author: Carmen Sirianni
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Author: Antonio Gramsci