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Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present

By Immanuel Ness , Dario Azzellini

Book information

Publisher
Haymarket Books
Year
2011
ISBN
160846119X, 9781608461196
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5137753 bytes)
Pages
400\456
Topic
History
Time added
2017-11-19 20:04:43
Economic Conditions;Economics;Business & Money;Eco

Description

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.

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