Thu, 06/03/14

The workers' economy: a global challenge

a report from the workers' at the occupied Officine Zero inRome

Workers from the occupied Officine Zero reflect on the conference in Marsailles and on their own experience.

http://www.dinamopress.it/multilanguages/the-workers-economy-a-global-challenge

Era:

21st Century: Workers' Control in the Present

Topic:

Workers' Control

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The Causes of Alienation

Ernest Mandel

Human alienation will disappear through the withering away of commodity production and social division of labour, through the disappearance of private ownership of the means of production.

Who is opposed to self-management and why?

Kostas Charitakis

This controversy illustrates the difference between the defeated world of ideology and the vibrant and outward-looking world of action that strives to disengage from the dominant relations.

Worker Management of the Barcelona Public Transit System, 1936-1939

Tom Wetzel

The history of worker management of Barcelona's transit system during the revolution and civil war is an illustration of the ability of workers to directly manage the industries where they work.

Occupation, worker co-operatives and the struggle for power: Britain in the 1970s

Alan Tuckman

Britain in the 1970s was a period of crisis and polarisation. Workplace closure led to resistance by workers, which defined the relations between capital and labour for subsequent decades.

Cooperative and common ownership

Benoît Borrits

Certain changes to the cooperative form could permit the creation of enterprises that would not belong to anyone specifically but would be at the disposal of its users, workers and clients alike.