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9781608461196

Ours to Master and to Own

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  • ISBN13:

    9781608461196

  • ISBN10:

    160846119X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-07-05
  • Publisher: Haymarket Books

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Summary

Capitalism would have us believe we need our bosses. This volume reveals the history of workers who dare to disagree

Author Biography

Dario Azzellini is a lecturer at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, and a documentary filmmaker. Immanuel Ness is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He edits WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society and writes on workers, migration, and revolutionary politics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Introductionp. 1
Workers' Councils: Historical Overview and Theoretical Debate
Workers' Control and Revolutionp. 10
Workers' Councils in Europe: A Century of Experiencep. 32
The Red Mole: Workers' Councils as a Means of Revolutionary Transformationp. 48
The Political Form at Last Discovered: Workers' Councils against the Capitalist Statep. 66
Workers' Councils and Self-Administration in Revolution: Early Twentieth Century
From Unionism to Workers' Councils: The Revolutionary Shop Stewards in Germany, 1914-1918p. 84
The Factory Committee Movement in the Russian Revolutionp. 104
Factory Councils in Turin, 1919-1920: ôThe Sole and Authentic Social Representatives of the Proletarian Classöp. 130
Workers'Democracy in the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1937p. 148
Workers' Control under State Socialism
Yugoslavia: Workers' Self-Management as State Paradigmp. 172
Give Us Back Our Factories! Between Resisting Exploitation and the Struggle for Workers' Power in Poland, 1944-1981p. 191
Anticolonial Struggle, Democratic Revolution, and Workers' Control
Workers'Control in Java, Indonesia, 1945-1946p. 210
From Workers' Self-Management to State Bureaucratic Control: Autogestion in Algeriap. 228
The Limits and Possibilities of Workers' Control within the State: Mendoza, Argentina, 1973p. 248
Workers' Councils in Portugal, 1974-1975p. 263
Workers' Control against Capitalist Restructuring in the Twentieth Century
Workers' Control and the Politics of Factory Occupation: Britain, 1970sp. 284
Workers' Direct Action and Factory Control in the United Statesp. 302
ôHot Autumnö: Italy's Factory Councils and Autonomous Workers' Assemblies, 1970sp. 322
Recipe for Anarchy: British Columbia's Telephone Workers' Occupation of 1981p. 338
Workers' Control, 1990-2010
Workers' Control in India's Communist-Ruled State: Labor Struggles and Trade Unions in West Bengalp. 356
Argentinean Worker-Taken Factories: Trajectories of Workers' Control under the Economic Crisisp. 365
Workers'Control under Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolutionp. 382
Brazilian Recovered Factories: The Constraints of Workers' Controlp. 400
Editor Biographiesp. 418
Author Biographiesp. 420
Indexp. 427
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