An Alternative Labour History: Worker Control and Workplace Democracy - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 178360154X ISBN 13 : 9781783601547

Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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, on their own, 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, this book uncovers the practices and intentions of historical and contemporary autonomous workers' movements that have been largely obscured until now. Addressing the questions of our age: What if there were no factories? What if most workers were individualized and work precarious? Can workers' control still be an option? this collection 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 always already have the capacity to run their enterprises on their own.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Dario Azzellini is a political scientist and lecturer at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, writer and filmmaker based in Berlin and Caracas. His research and writing focuses on social and revolutionary militancy, migration and racism, people's power and selfadministration and workers' control. He is co-author of 'They Can't Reprsent Us' and 'Occupying Language' and co-editor of 'Ours to Master and to Own'.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Zed Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 178360154X
• ISBN 13: 9781783601547
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 360